P..P-a... (OMG! PANTS!)...P-a-t... (OMG! SOMEONE MISSPELLED PANTS!)...P-a-t-e... P-a-t-e-n... (OMG! SOMEONE HAS NO CLUE HOW TO SPELL PANTS!)... P-a-t-e-n-t... (OH! Not really pants... OMG! I ALMOST MISREAD IT AS PANTS!)... P-a-t-e-n-t-S... Patents...
Particularly the kind that creates an actual physical piece of art with a press of a button. No. Nothing to do with art. Nothing at all. Most definitely.
6.5 BILLION people on planet. Lets say that 1 in a million need and want that product - and you are the ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD that supplies it. Who are they gonna call? Think REAL samurai swords made in the traditional way. And there is absolutely no practical use for those things.
How about those cameras that saved to floppies?
Umm.. And other than memory size and optics those differ from modern cameras how exactly? Note that both optics and storage are a matter of MONEY - not technology. Floppy cameras were using floppies cause they were cheap - not cause it was cool or cause it provided any distinctiveness to the photo process.
Take a look at the blurred and aquarelle-like picture in TFV and compare it with other New Yorker covers and then think about what you wrote there. While you are at it - try writing a memo on your phone.
If it is an iPhone there is probably an app for it. Or two. Or 183. I hear that there is an app for EVERYTHING on iPhone.
Sure, you could play it like that. But will you be able to match the right speed? How about the sound volume? And like you said - scratching problem.
We MAY not be able to read those messages. Most people WILL not be able to read them pretty soon due to obscurity. As you've implied - many kids today don't know they can play a record without electricity.
Heck, a dedicated tinkerer could relatively easily make a magnetic tape player from scratch. Not so likely with CDs. Nearly impossible with DVDs.
The point of the post was that the recording mediums often become unreadable through becoming obsolete BUT that the data recorded may well be readable for a much longer time. Attaching instructions how to read it to the device (as they did with Voyager disks) that should be readable in the distant future is a matter of adding 2 and 2.
Can. Meet Will Be. And this is her sister Should Be.
Oldest stone tools are millions of years old. Can we still use them for hunting or whatever? Sure. Should we still use them? Depends on the situation. Would we still use them? Highly unlikely if there is anything a bit more modern at hand. Like a stick.
In another 50-100 years we ourselves may not be able to read those audio messages we sent out to space on those golden records. Whose recording may outlive most of today's CDs and DVDs. Should we still be using turntables to listen to our records instead of MP3 players? Highly unlikely.
Same with the billion-year nano-memory. Read-Write interface may become obsolete in under a decade, but if by chance we need a really REALLY long term memory bank - the data will still be there. Just attach the particulars for building the Read-Write interface on the packaging and make the packaging something sturdy - like gold, stone, crystal, diamonds...
Due to trace amounts of cocaine known to be found on dollar bills - eating, snorting, licking or in any other way ingesting of money shall be strictly prohibited.
If the police officer founds that there is probable cause that the suspect was planing to engage in money ingestion - he/she/it has authorization to detain the suspect and confiscate the said money as evidence. Cause there is no ceasefire in the war on drugs.
OK... But for how many minutes? If it should be the maximum possible amount (90 days) - then it is only 8424000 possible passwords (65 password x 60 minutes x 24 hours x 90 days).
Now, I may be wrong but somehow I have a feeling that there are far more combinations for 94 characters. Also, this page makes some quite different claims regarding the time it takes to break passwords depending on their complexity.
Like 22,875 years to go through all passwords for 96 character password - if you are doing 10000 passwords per second.
They were firing plasma weapons and stuff at the moment (head was torn off due to a direct hit from a "ray gun") which MIGHT account for "creating a temporal anomaly" or "reversing the polarity of the tachyon field" or something like that. I could go with that with some suspension of disbelief. Also, I've just checked, and it went kinda like this. The skull rolls towards them, there is a pause, then they make the jump. In the next episode, in 2007, first the energy ball spreads then the skull flies out at the camera, then Sarah, John and Cameron arrive. Soo... there is room for speculation how and why that happened.
But the body just sitting in a dumpster somewhere for 8 years?
Three people break into a bank, demand to be locked inside a vault and then blow it up from inside. Fourth person walks past a swat team, directly through glass (doors) and starts pounding on the vault door. Shit goes down and they find only the corpse of the fourth person at the scene, only it is obvious that it is made of metal covered with skin - and they throw it into a dumpster?
Hello? Anyone seen Terminator 2? There was this part about a company almost single-handedly building Skynet out of a broken chip and torn hand of a terminator... Here instead we have an entire robot body sitting in a dumpster for 8 years.
But it IS exactly like that - the basic plot has not changed, ever - always exactly one "good guy" and one "bad guy" sent back in time and they duke it out for survival of humanity.
Dude, did you even see the pilot episode?
You can't send a time machine back, but you can send someone further in the past to build it for you? Remember that? One good guy and one bad guy? Not this show.
You sure you want to point to that explanation as "advice from some physicist consultants"?
Basically it boils down to them using a bomb made out of unobtainium, dumped into the Sun to simulate Big Bang. VERY scientific. Like The Core. A tad less scientific than Armageddon though.
If you can't buy the idea that a few members of a team of astronauts might start exhibiting unusual behaviour when they're isolated and placed under extreme stress for a long duration
Religious people going crazy and wanting to bring on the end of the world? Nothing unbelievable there.
What IS unbelievable is that the entire fucking planet chooses to send a religious lunatic (apparently nobody caught on him being batshit insane during all those tests and training) - instead of one of those Russians that they put up in space and forget about them for years. Or an otaku with a stash of hentai literature, videos and games. And a supply of ramen.
Someone apparently mixed up their playboy-billionaire-vigilantes.
A hint how to tell them apart:
Iron Man: Bright, shiny, metal armor that flies and shoots beams from it's hands and torso. Out of suit - an alcoholic wimp. Kills people.
Batman: Dark-black in color, partially bullet resistant suit, does not fly (glides like a kite sometimes) and throws things. Kinda like ninja dressed as giant bat. Out of suit - could kill a man with his thumb in at least 9 different ways. Doesn't kill people.
"I think that every single special effect was absolutely warranted and completely on the spot and necessary."
Clearly the writer of the article went to see some other movie - not JJ's Star Trek. Otherwise, he would at least mention all the unnecessary lens flaring. And the car chase sequence at the beginning. And the Cloverfield monster chase.
Another hint that the author of the text has no clue to the location of the real world - he finds Danny Boyle's Sunshine "underrated". A movie where they send mentally unstable astronauts to reignite the Sun by dropping a bomb in it.
Let me try and describe this device as if it were a topic of an article at Telegraph.co.uk.
Gun Camera to make people stop killing To end all gun violence once and for all, guns will be replaced with gun cameras.
Your boss asks you to do the impossible, your mom tortures you to get you to clean up your room, your friends stand you up, your girlfriend cheats on you... instead of taking out your aggression on the first innocent victim you find, we suggest you get one of these 100% harmless guns. It'll take a picture each time you press the trigger.
Aimat is a very basic, utterly unsophisticated photo camera. It was designed by Franziska Dierschke, a German student at the Bauhaus Academy in Weimar. Two years ago, she presented it at Desifnmai, a design conference held in Berlin, but it's only now started catching on over the Internet.
It's a pinhole camera, the kind anyone can make at home because they don't require any sort of extensive understanding of photography. These cameras produce an image using light that passes through a tiny hole. Any sort of container can be used to make a pinhole camera; all you have to do is drill a hole in it. And what better way to "shoot" your photos than straight out of a gun?
This camera has no focus, viewfinder, or lenses and makes very interesting photos, with a darkened frame around them like you get with the Lomo. A camera/toy that will help you reduce tension and also have fun running after your girlfriend, your mother, your boss, and your friends.
Why am I mentioning this? Because they (Telegraph.co.uk) found the Study Ball at that same site.
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How do you "almost misread" something?
P..P-a... (OMG! PANTS!)...P-a-t... (OMG! SOMEONE MISSPELLED PANTS!)...P-a-t-e... P-a-t-e-n... (OMG! SOMEONE HAS NO CLUE HOW TO SPELL PANTS!)... P-a-t-e-n-t... (OH! Not really pants... OMG! I ALMOST MISREAD IT AS PANTS!)... P-a-t-e-n-t-S... Patents...
There is no such device called the "kindle 3" - yet.
Cameras having NOTHING to do with art.
Particularly the kind that creates an actual physical piece of art with a press of a button.
No. Nothing to do with art.
Nothing at all.
Most definitely.
Uh, no, not if EVERYONE runs in one direction.
6.5 BILLION people on planet.
Lets say that 1 in a million need and want that product - and you are the ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD that supplies it. Who are they gonna call?
Think REAL samurai swords made in the traditional way. And there is absolutely no practical use for those things.
How about those cameras that saved to floppies?
Umm.. And other than memory size and optics those differ from modern cameras how exactly?
Note that both optics and storage are a matter of MONEY - not technology.
Floppy cameras were using floppies cause they were cheap - not cause it was cool or cause it provided any distinctiveness to the photo process.
Is that you?
Take a look at the blurred and aquarelle-like picture in TFV and compare it with other New Yorker covers and then think about what you wrote there.
While you are at it - try writing a memo on your phone.
If it is an iPhone there is probably an app for it. Or two. Or 183.
I hear that there is an app for EVERYTHING on iPhone.
1. Get warranty plan that will pay interest on the value if device fails before the warranty expires
2. Wait billion years
3. ???
4. Profit!
Build nano-elephants.
That way we will be combining nano-technology and nature and we will have a device that stores data for billion forevers.
Sure, you could play it like that. But will you be able to match the right speed? How about the sound volume? And like you said - scratching problem.
We MAY not be able to read those messages.
Most people WILL not be able to read them pretty soon due to obscurity.
As you've implied - many kids today don't know they can play a record without electricity.
Heck, a dedicated tinkerer could relatively easily make a magnetic tape player from scratch.
Not so likely with CDs. Nearly impossible with DVDs.
The point of the post was that the recording mediums often become unreadable through becoming obsolete BUT that the data recorded may well be readable for a much longer time.
Attaching instructions how to read it to the device (as they did with Voyager disks) that should be readable in the distant future is a matter of adding 2 and 2.
Can. Meet Will Be. And this is her sister Should Be.
Oldest stone tools are millions of years old.
Can we still use them for hunting or whatever? Sure.
Should we still use them? Depends on the situation.
Would we still use them? Highly unlikely if there is anything a bit more modern at hand. Like a stick.
In another 50-100 years we ourselves may not be able to read those audio messages we sent out to space on those golden records.
Whose recording may outlive most of today's CDs and DVDs. Should we still be using turntables to listen to our records instead of MP3 players?
Highly unlikely.
Same with the billion-year nano-memory.
Read-Write interface may become obsolete in under a decade, but if by chance we need a really REALLY long term memory bank - the data will still be there.
Just attach the particulars for building the Read-Write interface on the packaging and make the packaging something sturdy - like gold, stone, crystal, diamonds...
Due to trace amounts of cocaine known to be found on dollar bills - eating, snorting, licking or in any other way ingesting of money shall be strictly prohibited.
If the police officer founds that there is probable cause that the suspect was planing to engage in money ingestion - he/she/it has authorization to detain the suspect and confiscate the said money as evidence.
Cause there is no ceasefire in the war on drugs.
News not yet confirmed by THE OFFICIAL NEWS SOURCE.
See? Absolutely nothing new happened since Kim Jong Il received a gift from UK figure.
OK... But for how many minutes?
If it should be the maximum possible amount (90 days) - then it is only 8424000 possible passwords (65 password x 60 minutes x 24 hours x 90 days).
Now, I may be wrong but somehow I have a feeling that there are far more combinations for 94 characters.
Also, this page makes some quite different claims regarding the time it takes to break passwords depending on their complexity.
Like 22,875 years to go through all passwords for 96 character password - if you are doing 10000 passwords per second.
Nice.
They were firing plasma weapons and stuff at the moment (head was torn off due to a direct hit from a "ray gun") which MIGHT account for "creating a temporal anomaly" or "reversing the polarity of the tachyon field" or something like that.
I could go with that with some suspension of disbelief.
Also, I've just checked, and it went kinda like this.
The skull rolls towards them, there is a pause, then they make the jump.
In the next episode, in 2007, first the energy ball spreads then the skull flies out at the camera, then Sarah, John and Cameron arrive.
Soo... there is room for speculation how and why that happened.
But the body just sitting in a dumpster somewhere for 8 years?
Three people break into a bank, demand to be locked inside a vault and then blow it up from inside.
Fourth person walks past a swat team, directly through glass (doors) and starts pounding on the vault door.
Shit goes down and they find only the corpse of the fourth person at the scene, only it is obvious that it is made of metal covered with skin - and they throw it into a dumpster?
Hello? Anyone seen Terminator 2? There was this part about a company almost single-handedly building Skynet out of a broken chip and torn hand of a terminator...
Here instead we have an entire robot body sitting in a dumpster for 8 years.
But it IS exactly like that - the basic plot has not changed, ever - always exactly one "good guy" and one "bad guy" sent back in time and they duke it out for survival of humanity.
Dude, did you even see the pilot episode?
You can't send a time machine back, but you can send someone further in the past to build it for you? Remember that?
One good guy and one bad guy? Not this show.
Since when are statistics and probability taught in elementary schools?
Did Massachusetts become a Vulcan colony recently?
You sure you want to point to that explanation as "advice from some physicist consultants"?
Basically it boils down to them using a bomb made out of unobtainium, dumped into the Sun to simulate Big Bang.
VERY scientific. Like The Core. A tad less scientific than Armageddon though.
If you can't buy the idea that a few members of a team of astronauts might start exhibiting unusual behaviour when they're isolated and placed under extreme stress for a long duration
Religious people going crazy and wanting to bring on the end of the world? Nothing unbelievable there.
What IS unbelievable is that the entire fucking planet chooses to send a religious lunatic (apparently nobody caught on him being batshit insane during all those tests and training) - instead of one of those Russians that they put up in space and forget about them for years.
Or an otaku with a stash of hentai literature, videos and games.
And a supply of ramen.
Someone apparently mixed up their playboy-billionaire-vigilantes.
A hint how to tell them apart:
Iron Man:
Bright, shiny, metal armor that flies and shoots beams from it's hands and torso.
Out of suit - an alcoholic wimp. Kills people.
Batman:
Dark-black in color, partially bullet resistant suit, does not fly (glides like a kite sometimes) and throws things. Kinda like ninja dressed as giant bat.
Out of suit - could kill a man with his thumb in at least 9 different ways. Doesn't kill people.
This would be summarizing the article:
"I think that every single special effect was absolutely warranted and completely on the spot and necessary."
Clearly the writer of the article went to see some other movie - not JJ's Star Trek.
Otherwise, he would at least mention all the unnecessary lens flaring.
And the car chase sequence at the beginning.
And the Cloverfield monster chase.
Another hint that the author of the text has no clue to the location of the real world - he finds Danny Boyle's Sunshine "underrated".
A movie where they send mentally unstable astronauts to reignite the Sun by dropping a bomb in it.
Worse... It is a joke novelty item.
You know... Like stuff at ThinkGeek.
Let me try and describe this device as if it were a topic of an article at Telegraph.co.uk.
Gun Camera to make people stop killing
To end all gun violence once and for all, guns will be replaced with gun cameras.
Your boss asks you to do the impossible, your mom tortures you to get you to clean up your room, your friends stand you up, your girlfriend cheats on you... instead of taking out your aggression on the first innocent victim you find, we suggest you get one of these 100% harmless guns.
It'll take a picture each time you press the trigger.
Aimat is a very basic, utterly unsophisticated photo camera. It was designed by Franziska Dierschke, a German student at the Bauhaus Academy in Weimar.
Two years ago, she presented it at Desifnmai, a design conference held in Berlin, but it's only now started catching on over the Internet.
It's a pinhole camera, the kind anyone can make at home because they don't require any sort of extensive understanding of photography.
These cameras produce an image using light that passes through a tiny hole.
Any sort of container can be used to make a pinhole camera; all you have to do is drill a hole in it.
And what better way to "shoot" your photos than straight out of a gun?
This camera has no focus, viewfinder, or lenses and makes very interesting photos, with a darkened frame around them like you get with the Lomo.
A camera/toy that will help you reduce tension and also have fun running after your girlfriend, your mother, your boss, and your friends.
Why am I mentioning this?
Because they (Telegraph.co.uk) found the Study Ball at that same site.
IT IS A JOKE ITEM!
Not actually intended as a study device.
You know... like the Periodic Table Shower Curtain.
Pigs will eat anything.
...is like saying "this video I saw" to about 95% of humans on planet Earth.
0% of valuable information.
Neanderthal-burgers...
OK, that is actually two words.