The "HD" DVR our cable company supplies, along with our subscription package provides more entertainment that we can keep up with in the little leisure time we have. We kept making noises about getting Netflix last summer, but never got around to it. Never got around to buying a blu-ray player, haven't bothered to hook up the old DVD player after re-arranging things, and haven't bothered to hook up one of the laptops to do streaming from the web.
Convenience rules. Granted, there's a bit of "meh, let's watch this" factor, instead of always watching what we really want. But even with Netflix, you'd have to wait for stuff to show up in your mail box, and who knows if it's as high a priority when it arrives as it was when you added it to your queue. If Netflix could pull off Qwest's 1999 boast of "any movie, any time, any where", then I might get out of my la-z-boy.
I'm totally on board with the idea of kick starting an open source project to build military robots to prevent warlords from using hunger as a weapon. Hunger isn't (in most cases) an agricultural problem, it's a social & political problem.
You could have gotten the diploma originally and not put it on your job application or resume. How bout that?
That would be a lie of omission. Some people have standards of moral conduct. You might have to deal with this sort of thing when dealing with borderline Aspberger's nerds.
First that vague press report on the purportedly revolutionary (no pun intended) wave disk engine from Michigan state, now this. Did some sort of pronouncement go out that Michigan universities need to flog green technology to overcome the abject failure of Detroit ?
What sunk Xanadu, IMHO, is that it was much too ambitious. They were trying to make a framework to present the sum total of human knowledge. Still, some extremely clever work was done on that project, both before and during the Autodesk years.
too ambitious?! Not ambitious enough I say!
What about non-human knowledge?! Or, a little more seriously, knowledge synthesized by some machine intelligence? What about imaginary knowledge? Or, knowledge of the imaginary? What about unknowledge?!!
Actually, that is one problem we have with using the web as a knowledgebase for bootstrapping GOLEM III , there's to way to capture the veracity of anything. All this information from different sources is given equal weight in truthiness.
No Xanadu was a futurmistic house in Orlando made of spray foam insulation. It has since been demolished and lost in the mists of time. Among its wonders was it that was managed by these things called personal computers. (see, not totally OT)
man who says impossible shouldn't interrupt man who does
So Teddy boy comes up with a concept, theorizes around, accomplishing (near) zilch building his ivory towers out of clouds for 20 years and he's complaining about the 50 million bazillion websites people have made, some of them actually useful? Jeeze, at least pretend to be relevant by helping pound a stake through the heart of Flash.
Well-known rainbow-moonbat Jerry Pournelle described (in the collection "One Step Farther Out", for one) beaming microwave power from a SPSS to power jet aircraft. OK, so the initial startup costs for infrastructure would be steep, but you get a real big-boy space program as a side-effect. What would the economic effect of decreasing jet fuel use by 90% be? 95% ?
17,000 x 7 (Shuttle) < 1300 x 120 (Concorde) < 350 x 500 = 175000 (TGV)
OK, maybe passenger miles per hour isn't the right metric either. The shuttle might still win on passenger miles. For extra credit, convert to units of hogshead / fortnight or/. standard Libraries of Congress.
Also, as someone who works for Abengoa and is in regular contact with APS, it would have been freaking awesome for the Slashsdot news article to have mentioned either one of those companies. But no, let's just blather on about the investment company, who gives a rat's ass about the folks doing the actual work? Jackass writer.
Gee mister AC, you seem perfectly capable of typing. I hope that link isn't too meta for anybody out there...
A while ago a computer vendor I've long trusted was including 4GB MP3 players that looked like iPod shuffle wannabes as a freebie with your order. I ended up with two of them and I never was able to copy a whole GB of data, let alone 4 to them. They looked more like 128MB. I guess I figured out why they were giving them away for free.
Democratic president + Republican congress = shut down the government
Hey, at least the teabaggers should like this, they just need to figure out how to make this a permanent situation.
And WTF is with the Republicans attitude of "I'm going to hold my breath until I get what I want"? Oh, wait, president doormat folds every time. Guess that toddler attitude is working for Republicans.
alloys, ceramic or fiber composites, carbon nanotube and fiber optic cabling to self-healing skin, hybrid electric engines, folding wings, double fuselages and virtual reality windows to come up with a series of aircraft designs that could end up taking you on a business trip by about 2030."
So basically, it's coffee and office supplies for a couple of guys to sit around an spitball crazy ideas and whack out a few computer renderings. You're sure this wasn't a engadget article?
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The "HD" DVR our cable company supplies, along with our subscription package provides more entertainment that we can keep up with in the little leisure time we have. We kept making noises about getting Netflix last summer, but never got around to it. Never got around to buying a blu-ray player, haven't bothered to hook up the old DVD player after re-arranging things, and haven't bothered to hook up one of the laptops to do streaming from the web.
Convenience rules.
Granted, there's a bit of "meh, let's watch this" factor, instead of always watching what we really want. But even with Netflix, you'd have to wait for stuff to show up in your mail box, and who knows if it's as high a priority when it arrives as it was when you added it to your queue. If Netflix could pull off Qwest's 1999 boast of "any movie, any time, any where", then I might get out of my la-z-boy.
I'm totally on board with the idea of kick starting an open source project to build military robots to prevent warlords from using hunger as a weapon. Hunger isn't (in most cases) an agricultural problem, it's a social & political problem.
You could have gotten the diploma originally and not put it on your job application or resume. How bout that?
That would be a lie of omission. Some people have standards of moral conduct. You might have to deal with this sort of thing when dealing with borderline Aspberger's nerds.
First that vague press report on the purportedly revolutionary (no pun intended) wave disk engine from Michigan state, now this. Did some sort of pronouncement go out that Michigan universities need to flog green technology to overcome the abject failure of Detroit ?
What sunk Xanadu, IMHO, is that it was much too ambitious. They were trying to make a framework to present the sum total of human knowledge. Still, some extremely clever work was done on that project, both before and during the Autodesk years.
too ambitious?! Not ambitious enough I say!
What about non-human knowledge?!
Or, a little more seriously, knowledge synthesized by some machine intelligence? What about imaginary knowledge? Or, knowledge of the imaginary? What about unknowledge?!!
Actually, that is one problem we have with using the web as a knowledgebase for bootstrapping GOLEM III , there's to way to capture the veracity of anything. All this information from different sources is given equal weight in truthiness.
No Xanadu was a futurmistic house in Orlando made of spray foam insulation. It has since been demolished and lost in the mists of time. Among its wonders was it that was managed by these things called personal computers. (see, not totally OT)
man who says impossible shouldn't interrupt man who does
So Teddy boy comes up with a concept, theorizes around, accomplishing (near) zilch building his ivory towers out of clouds for 20 years and he's complaining about the 50 million bazillion websites people have made, some of them actually useful? Jeeze, at least pretend to be relevant by helping pound a stake through the heart of Flash.
It's still made from dead dinosaurs, right ?
I'm pretty sure anyone smart enough to use the term "pax Americana" is using it in an ironic sense.
AWWWWW CRAP does that mean we have to endure a remake of this ?
Well-known rainbow-moonbat Jerry Pournelle described (in the collection "One Step Farther Out", for one) beaming microwave power from a SPSS to power jet aircraft.
OK, so the initial startup costs for infrastructure would be steep, but you get a real big-boy space program as a side-effect.
What would the economic effect of decreasing jet fuel use by 90% be? 95% ?
17,000 x 7 (Shuttle) < 1300 x 120 (Concorde) < 350 x 500 = 175000 (TGV)
/. standard Libraries of Congress.
OK, maybe passenger miles per hour isn't the right metric either. The shuttle might still win on passenger miles.
For extra credit, convert to units of hogshead / fortnight or
Also, as someone who works for Abengoa and is in regular contact with APS, it would have been freaking awesome for the Slashsdot news article to have mentioned either one of those companies. But no, let's just blather on about the investment company, who gives a rat's ass about the folks doing the actual work? Jackass writer.
Gee mister AC, you seem perfectly capable of typing. I hope that link isn't too meta for anybody out there...
I've got news for you, Glissinda's not a real female.
They've been available in Florida for years. They added a brewery in Tampa. Pretty good beer.
A while ago a computer vendor I've long trusted was including 4GB MP3 players that looked like iPod shuffle wannabes as a freebie with your order. I ended up with two of them and I never was able to copy a whole GB of data, let alone 4 to them. They looked more like 128MB. I guess I figured out why they were giving them away for free.
You got truthiness in my mathematics!
This will not do. Oh no, no, no, no, no.
Democratic president + Republican congress = shut down the government
Hey, at least the teabaggers should like this, they just need to figure out how to make this a permanent situation.
And WTF is with the Republicans attitude of "I'm going to hold my breath until I get what I want"? Oh, wait, president doormat folds every time. Guess that toddler attitude is working for Republicans.
Good, maybe we can get the antinuclear hysterics on one side and the space nutters on the other. That would be an amusing scuffle!
Cosmos 954 -- when the Soviets nuked Canada!
Should'a done a Commodore PET 2001, that was space-age looking!
alloys, ceramic or fiber composites, carbon nanotube and fiber optic cabling to self-healing skin, hybrid electric engines, folding wings, double fuselages and virtual reality windows to come up with a series of aircraft designs that could end up taking you on a business trip by about 2030."
So basically, it's coffee and office supplies for a couple of guys to sit around an spitball crazy ideas and whack out a few computer renderings. You're sure this wasn't a engadget article?
Sounds like a Bond villain to me.
Like that Julian Assange fellow...
oh, wait, I just looked on the back side of the Georgia Guidestones and it says right here - "no people means no tax income".