> You're suggesting that people actually live off that stuff? I'm sure most people would rather suffocate.
That's the beauty of it: run it through the centrifuge and you end up with a little bit of warm air, several new fantasies for the holodeck, and a whole lot of fertilizer for the hydroponics module.
If we could trap all the hot air from the presidential campaign in a big balloon and release it just as the ISS went by, maybe they could catch it and use it to keep the station going for a few more weeks.
I hope he also suggested a way for growing money on trees.
Elephants supposedly eat about 400 pounds of food per day. Anyone want to calculate the annual cost of merely keeping a pair of elephants fed? Let alone the initial transport and the construction of their pen?
I wonder how things are going to go in Florida this time around, between Diebold machines, institutionalized electoral mismanagement ('00 was neither their first "00", nor their last), and 2-3 hurricanes wiping the state's infrastructure flat during the run-up to the election.
> Yes, it'd be better if companies just wait to go out of business rather than try to remain competitive.
It's a Tragedy of the Commons problem. If one company outsources, it's business savvy; if they all do, it's economic collapse.
Notice that consumerism accounts for ~2/3 of the US economy. When consumers don't have any money, that prop of corporate megabucks will fall.
Of course, the USA has surely been living an unsustainable dream for the past century or so. Maybe all this is just the first phase of reality catching up with us.
> at least Walmart can afford to reimburse those customers
I wonder whether businesses are smart enough to hire actuaries to tell them what the economic impact of compromised technology could be, and whether actuaries have enough risk data to actuall put a number on it.
> But, what has magic, dragons, castles etc. to do with science?
What do FTL travel and most of the other familiar trappings of SF have to do with science?
I suspect the biggest difference between SF and Fantasy is the window dressing. It's no accident that there's so much overlap in their respective sets of readers.
Casual site visitors should note that the actual game looks much nicer than the screenshots would lead you to expect. This is a very polished (and fun) game, though still in pre-release v.0.8.3.
> I always assumed this was why DJ's talked over the intro to tunes, to mess up anyone recording, lord knows they could save their breath because who cares what DJ's have to say when your tune starts to play (you actually want them to shut the fsck up!)
This has been going on since long before people even had cassette recorders. I think it's just a matter of trying to cram more crap into a 24 hour day, same as playing songs to overlap each other, playing them at accelerated speed, talking ultra-fast during commercial disclaimers, etc.
> Let's not even start talking about all the wonderful social engineering that can now be performed with this great service. "This is Bill Gates. I forgot my password. Give it to me."
It's probably a front for an FBI sting operation, an invitation for stupid criminals to use them as a middle-man in their crimes.
Slashdot Mirror
...or pull on the catapult's ropes?
> I welcome our new jesusbot overlords.
Shouldn't that be "overlords of overlords".
> (This might also work for water-walking religous figures, but I wouldn't recommend it.)
Just remember not to cast Water-to-Wine while your Walk-on-Water is in effect. You'll sink like a rock.
> You're suggesting that people actually live off that stuff? I'm sure most people would rather suffocate.
That's the beauty of it: run it through the centrifuge and you end up with a little bit of warm air, several new fantasies for the holodeck, and a whole lot of fertilizer for the hydroponics module.
If we could trap all the hot air from the presidential campaign in a big balloon and release it just as the ISS went by, maybe they could catch it and use it to keep the station going for a few more weeks.
I hope he also suggested a way for growing money on trees.
Elephants supposedly eat about 400 pounds of food per day. Anyone want to calculate the annual cost of merely keeping a pair of elephants fed? Let alone the initial transport and the construction of their pen?
...try not to mention "ancient eunuchs" and "gameboys" in the same sentence.
>
> > Why not give it a shot?
Aaaiiieeeee! Top-posting makes its debut on Slashdot! [head explodes, intarweb collapses]
I wonder how things are going to go in Florida this time around, between Diebold machines, institutionalized electoral mismanagement ('00 was neither their first "00", nor their last), and 2-3 hurricanes wiping the state's infrastructure flat during the run-up to the election.
> Yes, it'd be better if companies just wait to go out of business rather than try to remain competitive.
It's a Tragedy of the Commons problem. If one company outsources, it's business savvy; if they all do, it's economic collapse.
Notice that consumerism accounts for ~2/3 of the US economy. When consumers don't have any money, that prop of corporate megabucks will fall.
Of course, the USA has surely been living an unsustainable dream for the past century or so. Maybe all this is just the first phase of reality catching up with us.
> So it's basically just a motion detector with some fancy bells and whistles (ie, can tell if you're walking away)?
Yeah, it's about as scary as an automatic door opener.
(If this kind of thing gets too prevalent and obnoxious, you can always sell your soul like Bart did.)
> at least Walmart can afford to reimburse those customers
I wonder whether businesses are smart enough to hire actuaries to tell them what the economic impact of compromised technology could be, and whether actuaries have enough risk data to actuall put a number on it.
> But, what has magic, dragons, castles etc. to do with science?
What do FTL travel and most of the other familiar trappings of SF have to do with science?
I suspect the biggest difference between SF and Fantasy is the window dressing. It's no accident that there's so much overlap in their respective sets of readers.
> She asked a bunch of questions, and wanted to know if there was a maximum level they could get.
Whereas a guy would have asked what level you have to be to get the area-effect version of Entice Maidens.
...the same one they use to make 'blue' movies?
> "Anonymous Coward writes.."
Maybe he's just trying to prove to his courtship rival, Brian, that black helicopters really do exist.
...toggle their diffs in from the front panel.
> However, I do agree that open source model does not encourage games that are graphic intensive that involves a lot of artwork.
Which could be a potential plus, since game companies, like Hollywood, have been focusing too much on effects and too little on substance.
> Battle for Wesnoth
Casual site visitors should note that the actual game looks much nicer than the screenshots would lead you to expect. This is a very polished (and fun) game, though still in pre-release v.0.8.3.
> I always assumed this was why DJ's talked over the intro to tunes, to mess up anyone recording, lord knows they could save their breath because who cares what DJ's have to say when your tune starts to play (you actually want them to shut the fsck up!)
This has been going on since long before people even had cassette recorders. I think it's just a matter of trying to cram more crap into a 24 hour day, same as playing songs to overlap each other, playing them at accelerated speed, talking ultra-fast during commercial disclaimers, etc.
> What's down the pike, Rethan, Mithan, Fathan, Sothan,
Sorry; I think that's based on a bad parse. More likely will be Dotchewy, Dotluke, Dotleia, Dotbobba, Dotdarth, Dotstormtrooper#3,
What's down the pike, Rethan, Mithan, Fathan, Sothan,
You could have shortened that to "experienced"; the rest follows naturally from that.
> Let's not even start talking about all the wonderful social engineering that can now be performed with this great service. "This is Bill Gates. I forgot my password. Give it to me."
It's probably a front for an FBI sting operation, an invitation for stupid criminals to use them as a middle-man in their crimes.
...selling methods for reducing the size of our transistors?