Important points:
1. Nobody writing about this story has mentioned the crucial fact that this is specific to an individual- you have to go through a series of calibration exercises before the technique works. Thus, a general "scanning" device doesn't appear to be even a distant possibility.
You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down.
So...why the fuck are we still shooting rovers to Mars? Why aren't we going ourselves yet? We've seen it, sampled it, measured and tested every aspect we can...it's time to pay the rock a fucking visit, not shoot more meters and probes at it.
If we're going to send humans, it would be very nice to have a way of putting them there without turning the into human-puree. Sending a heavy vehicle is a way to find out more.
And while it's there, it might as well do research.
I'm with you.
With Compiz as your window manager, and an ordinary VT100 terminal emulator, or perhaps Emacs-GTK with a black background, you can make your computer look like a Hollywood movie hacker's computer, with it actually BEING a hacker's computer that can actually hack things.
What happens to the world when a crazy dictator get his hands on some genetics technology and a few willing scientists. What happens when monsters are real? I don't think it's unrealistic to think it's going to eventually be a problem.
Hoo hyu callink "monsterz"? Ve iz Jaegerz and proud.
Green Lantern has been retconed by DC so many times and is such a minor hero you can mess with his character with impunity but Hollywood's treatment of the X-Men in all it's attempts confirms my opinion that the sooner the faultline dumps it into the Pacific the better.
A couple of years ago I spent a week at a friend's place reading a big pile of X-Men comics.
I think it's safe to say that the X-Men have been retconned so often that at this point any iteration can be considered canon.
Max/MSP, Pd, Csound and SuperCollider are great fun but too predictable. You'll find that many folks who are well versed in these environments are now also using cassette tapes, bent circuits and stomp boxes to add more unpredictability and grime to their music.
GP's suggestion sounds rather awesome, to be honest.
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$ text2think
text2think: command not found
Drat. Must still be in Sid.
Important points:
1. Nobody writing about this story has mentioned the crucial fact that this is specific to an individual- you have to go through a series of calibration exercises before the technique works. Thus, a general "scanning" device doesn't appear to be even a distant possibility.
You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down.
The Dutch, in general, speak incredibly good English.
Speeking it is one thing, righting it quiet an other.
A Nicoll-Dyson beam!
Although probably due to the cancellation of that show about a single female lawyer.
That's magical thinking.
I find your lack of faith amazing.
So...why the fuck are we still shooting rovers to Mars? Why aren't we going ourselves yet? We've seen it, sampled it, measured and tested every aspect we can...it's time to pay the rock a fucking visit, not shoot more meters and probes at it.
If we're going to send humans, it would be very nice to have a way of putting them there without turning the into human-puree. Sending a heavy vehicle is a way to find out more.
And while it's there, it might as well do research.
I'm with you. With Compiz as your window manager, and an ordinary VT100 terminal emulator, or perhaps Emacs-GTK with a black background, you can make your computer look like a Hollywood movie hacker's computer, with it actually BEING a hacker's computer that can actually hack things.
Hollywood's way ahead of you.
(yo (dawg))
Gnurface?
"The thing's hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God—it's full of Greeks!" --David Bowman
Before you know it, the new owner will install an AI on it and tow it to L5.
What happens to the world when a crazy dictator get his hands on some genetics technology and a few willing scientists. What happens when monsters are real? I don't think it's unrealistic to think it's going to eventually be a problem.
Hoo hyu callink "monsterz"? Ve iz Jaegerz and proud.
Well, I guess now we'll have to change it to "GNU/GNU Hurd".
Death... by GNU/GNU!
When will NVIDIA change ways?
*: Face facts, among Linux users who are going to want to use high-end video cards, the vast majority will use Ubuntu.
I'd guess that most Linux users who are going to use high-end video cards are using Red Hat or Suse. Those Linux users aren't gamers, either.
They realized Earth would become uninhabitable for them , so they flew away in their spaceships.
Indeed they did. Some time ago I saw a documentary that showed they were now a thriving culture in the Delta Quadrant.
They went swimming right after eating and they drowned! No! They ran around with scissors in their hands! No, no! I ran 'em over with my truck!
There is very little point in spending huge sums of money scanning for world killers as at this point there isnt much we can do about it anyways.
Calling something that's 8 to 18 meters across a "world killer" is rather generous, though.
"Lose the source, Luke."
Green Lantern has been retconed by DC so many times and is such a minor hero you can mess with his character with impunity but Hollywood's treatment of the X-Men in all it's attempts confirms my opinion that the sooner the faultline dumps it into the Pacific the better.
A couple of years ago I spent a week at a friend's place reading a big pile of X-Men comics.
I think it's safe to say that the X-Men have been retconned so often that at this point any iteration can be considered canon.
When he's lampium, he's lampium, he's cold cold lampium.
Blirit.
Making a database of really bad analogies is like making love to a beautiful woman.
Max/MSP, Pd, Csound and SuperCollider are great fun but too predictable. You'll find that many folks who are well versed in these environments are now also using cassette tapes, bent circuits and stomp boxes to add more unpredictability and grime to their music.
GP's suggestion sounds rather awesome, to be honest.
Because I haven't figured out how to reverse the tachyon stream yet.