Must suck as a patient to have to stay in bed and have a cold *all* the time. I'm not saying that I'd rather have cancer than a cold, but shouldn't they have used some other virus that doesn't have so many side-effects.
om Smykowski: You know I had an idea like that once, a long time ago. It was a jump to conclusions mat. You see it would be this mat that you would put on the floor and it would have different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP to.
Michael Bolton: That is the worst idea I have ever heard in my life Tom.
Yea, a bunch of flat polygons at 5 fps, it must be unix!!
Seriously though, that movie shows exactly why 3D interfaces are lame. It took here about a minute to find the right "folder", while on a normal interface it would take 1-10 seconds.
And you know what will happen if you are too slow on the computer. Dinosaurs will eat you alive!
I predict in 20 or so years, Europe and the U.S. will have plenty of catching up to do when it comes to robotics. It seems the japanese are coming up with a new robot concept every week!
For having a system where "the winner takes all votes".
It's much better to have percentages and multiple parties, where one of the benefits is this kinda scam just isn't possible, one vote counts as exactly one vote, and the correct president actually wins.
You guys are actually discussing tiny nanobots constructing something the size of a Ferrari?
Wake up. It will never happen.
Not just because it's incredibly far out, but it's such an inconvinient way of constructing, that it would cost you billions of times more money and/or take billions of times longer.
Self-replicating nanobots? I'll believe that when I see self-replicating, normal-size robots.
Smalley: The central problem I see with the nanobot self-assembler then is primarily chemistry. If the nanobot is restricted to be a water-based life-form, since this is the only way its molecular assembly tools will work, then there is a long list of vulnerabilities and limitations to what it can do. If it is a non-water-based life-form, then there is a vast area of chemistry that has eluded us for centuries.
Please tell us about this new chemistry.
Drexler: blah blah blah. I want money from the military. blah blah blah. Nanotechnology will be awesome.
Smalley: I see you have now walked out of the room where I had led you to talk about real chemistry, and you are now back in your mechanical world.
1. RTFM? I've used windows for years and have never required to use a manual. Except for getting internet up and running on the very first version of win95.
2. Games. I, like many many others, wont switch until all the great PC games come for linux as well.
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So, what exactly is the difference between Kazaa, and the others, ie Napster?
How come Kazaa always seems to get away with what they're doing?
Do they have a different architecture or what?
That's really amazing if it works. Found a couple of links:
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http://homepage.mac.com/eliu500/iblog/C16532809
http://www.netera.ca/reovirus/
Must suck as a patient to have to stay in bed and have a cold *all* the time. I'm not saying that I'd rather have cancer than a cold, but shouldn't they have used some other virus that doesn't have so many side-effects.
Is there such viruses at all?
waste disposal will be safe once there's actually enough waste to actually need a permanent disposal site. It's not even an issue, get over it.
It's all the other everyday chemicals that we use, that actually cause cancer, not some far away nuclear reactor.
Score +2 for effort, troll
..but when is patents EVER a good thing?
I used to think it was a good thing in the area of medicine, because it can take over 10 years of research to create a new drug.
But now I don't even know if that justifies it. See: South Africa, millions dying because of over-priced medicine.
I'm beginning to believe that research would've been done anyway, because the advantages of being first are so big..
om Smykowski: You know I had an idea like that once, a long time ago. It was a jump to conclusions mat. You see it would be this mat that you would put on the floor and it would have different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP to.
Michael Bolton: That is the worst idea I have ever heard in my life Tom.
Samir: Yes, this is horrible this idea.
"Luke, I'm NOT your father after all"
"NOOOOOOOOOO" *cries like a girl*
There have been so many similar things, free ISP, even free telephony, paid by advertisement interruptions.
It always fails. Why?
Because it makes you feel like Alex in Clockwork Orange being force-fed evil media!
Right, right?
Because the future hasn't happened yet!
Duuuh!
Moore's law dude, Moore's law
That will change in the next few days (jan 1st) when the EU gets 10 new member countries, including Poland which is 60 million alone.
BC spokesman would only say that the 'investment in SCO is passive, made to hedge an economic exposure resulting from client transactions.'
What he really meant to say was: "we don't really give a shit about this company, and this investment was the stupidest crap we've ever done."
Yea, a bunch of flat polygons at 5 fps, it must be unix!!
Seriously though, that movie shows exactly why 3D interfaces are lame. It took here about a minute to find the right "folder", while on a normal interface it would take 1-10 seconds.
And you know what will happen if you are too slow on the computer. Dinosaurs will eat you alive!
I got a lot of gamer friends and they all are die hard Fallout fans. It seems a game like that just couldn't miss!
Many, many gamers think fallout/fallout2 was the best game they ever played! How could they cancel this. Was it really that crap?
I predict in 20 or so years, Europe and the U.S. will have plenty of catching up to do when it comes to robotics. It seems the japanese are coming up with a new robot concept every week!
When it comes to graphics, what I want is exactly "Whiz-bang" features.
Graphics whore since 1983 and proud of it!
They should just settle with robots on wheels with a really stable body (think R2D2) and make them use the elevators.
Going up stairs at 0.00000001 mph is pointless anyway.
For having a system where "the winner takes all votes".
It's much better to have percentages and multiple parties, where one of the benefits is this kinda scam just isn't possible, one vote counts as exactly one vote, and the correct president actually wins.
See Europe (excluding the UK)
You guys are actually discussing tiny nanobots constructing something the size of a Ferrari?
Wake up. It will never happen.
Not just because it's incredibly far out, but it's such an inconvinient way of constructing, that it would cost you billions of times more money and/or take billions of times longer.
Self-replicating nanobots? I'll believe that when I see self-replicating, normal-size robots.
Smalley: The central problem I see with the nanobot self-assembler then is primarily chemistry. If the nanobot is restricted to be a water-based life-form, since this is the only way its molecular assembly tools will work, then there is a long list of vulnerabilities and limitations to what it can do. If it is a non-water-based life-form, then there is a vast area of chemistry that has eluded us for centuries.
Please tell us about this new chemistry.
Drexler: blah blah blah. I want money from the military. blah blah blah. Nanotechnology will be awesome.
Smalley: I see you have now walked out of the room where I had led you to talk about real chemistry, and you are now back in your mechanical world.
Do the wheels play multiplayer Quake with each other in their spare time?
Is the communication between the wheel and the brake done using XML protocols?
Do the wheels send an email to your mobile phone when your refrigerator has run out of milk?
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Brain Terminated.
Everybody can appeal, not only the state.
This is good, because often small-time courts will not be as professional or experienced and "fair", as the higher courts.
The problem with this is it's a one-time-only improvement. It's not something that can drive us to ever faster chips.
1. RTFM? I've used windows for years and have never required to use a manual. Except for getting internet up and running on the very first version of win95.
2. Games. I, like many many others, wont switch until all the great PC games come for linux as well.
That's basically all you guys need.