A couple decades ago, Isaac Asimov's science fiction magazine carried a cartoon called 'Mooney's Module'. Most of them were supposed to be sci-fi parodies of advertisements and PSAs. This reminds me of two in particular
In one issue, the cartoon had a picture of a robot standing in front of the US flag. It had the caption "I'm as American as you are"
Another one had a picture of nine faces, the first 8 were robots and the ninth was a human, with a caption that said "Equal opportunity is everyone's business. Hire a human"
Think of an inflatable rubber ball, think of its outer surface. It is of finite area, yet it has no boundaries. As it expands, every point on the surface moves away from every other point. Imagine a 2-dimensional creature living on the surface. Its universe is the surface of the ball, the light that it sees by travels along the curved surface of the ball. It can not see beyond its universe, just as we can not see beyond our 3-dimensional universe.
Now add a dimension to that scenario. We live in a 3-dimensional universe that is curved in on itself. It has finite volume, yet no boundaries. And just like the ball, as it expands every point moves further away from every other point. And because light takes time to travel, the further we look into space, the further back in time we are looking. The furthest back in time we can ever look is the current age of the universe. The light from objects more light-years away than that would not have had time to reach us (Think of the 2D creature trying to see an object that is more than halfway around its ball universe). However, we can see those objects simply by looking in the exact opposite direction in the sky.
"Thompson has also criticized a Christian video game based on the Left Behind series. In Left Behind: Eternal Forces, players participate in "battles raging in the streets of New York," according to the game's fact sheet. They engage in "physical and spiritual warfare: using the power of prayer to strengthen your troops in combat and wield modern military weaponry throughout the game world." Thompson claims that the makers of the game are sacrificing their values. He said, "Because of the Christian context, somehow it's OK? It's not OK. The context is irrelevant. It's a mass-killing game." Left Behind author Tim LaHaye disagrees, saying "Rather than forbid young people from viewing their favorite pastime, I prefer to give them something that's positive." The dispute over the game has caused Thompson to sever ties with Tyndale House, which publishes both the Left Behind books and Thompson's book, Out of Harm's Way. Thompson has not seen the game, which he says has "personally broken my heart," but claims, "I don't have to meet Abraham Lincoln to know that he was the 16th president of the United States.""
We used the optical scan system in my county in Maryland until 2002, and then for some bizarre reason we switched to diebold. And we've been having a hell of a time getting rid of them because the Governor of MD was against them and the woman in charge of the elections had a personal grudge against him. Anyway, he was just voted out, so maybe we'll have a better shot now.
I can take games of varying length, but the amount of game you get should be reflected in the price. A good example is Beyond Good & Evil. Great, but short game. About 10 hours. I forget exactly how much it cost when it first came out, but it was less than the standard $50. Maybe $35 or something like that.
China, a known totalitatian dictatorship, is making and freely supplying to its citizens, a system by which those citizens' geographic location can be constantly tracked.
Does ANYONE think that the Chinese government might have an ulterior motive?
We can take a very simple algorithm, place it in a robot body and drop it into a real environment, and see intelligent and intricate behaviors emerge via the robots interaction with its environment.
"Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisement said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighbourhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches.
Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: 'Learn, guys.'"
umm.. won't the distortion be the same every time you take a picture of the retina? Meaning you would take a distorted picture of the retina and compare it to a distorted picture that was taken earlier. Why would you need to compensate?
Communist? Do you even have any idea what communism means? In a communist state, the MPAA wouldn't even be able to exist. The MPAA is about as capitalistic as it is possible to get.
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If Jack Thompson saw this, you'd probably be able to fry an egg on his head.
JT: "The nerve of these, these, GAMERS! Actually trying to help children! Don't they know they're supposed to be the bad guys?"
"I meant to do that"
Or how about what the Dumbing Down of America means?
Please learn what Begging the Question means.
A couple decades ago, Isaac Asimov's science fiction magazine carried a cartoon called 'Mooney's Module'. Most of them were supposed to be sci-fi parodies of advertisements and PSAs. This reminds me of two in particular
In one issue, the cartoon had a picture of a robot standing in front of the US flag. It had the caption "I'm as American as you are"
Another one had a picture of nine faces, the first 8 were robots and the ninth was a human, with a caption that said "Equal opportunity is everyone's business. Hire a human"
Think of an inflatable rubber ball, think of its outer surface. It is of finite area, yet it has no boundaries. As it expands, every point on the surface moves away from every other point. Imagine a 2-dimensional creature living on the surface. Its universe is the surface of the ball, the light that it sees by travels along the curved surface of the ball. It can not see beyond its universe, just as we can not see beyond our 3-dimensional universe.
Now add a dimension to that scenario. We live in a 3-dimensional universe that is curved in on itself. It has finite volume, yet no boundaries. And just like the ball, as it expands every point moves further away from every other point. And because light takes time to travel, the further we look into space, the further back in time we are looking. The furthest back in time we can ever look is the current age of the universe. The light from objects more light-years away than that would not have had time to reach us (Think of the 2D creature trying to see an object that is more than halfway around its ball universe). However, we can see those objects simply by looking in the exact opposite direction in the sky.
Acrophobia here too. Although airplanes don't bother me at all. Maybe I'd go up in one of those things if they put fiberglass walls around the seats.
He already has responded
"Thompson has also criticized a Christian video game based on the Left Behind series. In Left Behind: Eternal Forces, players participate in "battles raging in the streets of New York," according to the game's fact sheet. They engage in "physical and spiritual warfare: using the power of prayer to strengthen your troops in combat and wield modern military weaponry throughout the game world." Thompson claims that the makers of the game are sacrificing their values. He said, "Because of the Christian context, somehow it's OK? It's not OK. The context is irrelevant. It's a mass-killing game." Left Behind author Tim LaHaye disagrees, saying "Rather than forbid young people from viewing their favorite pastime, I prefer to give them something that's positive." The dispute over the game has caused Thompson to sever ties with Tyndale House, which publishes both the Left Behind books and Thompson's book, Out of Harm's Way. Thompson has not seen the game, which he says has "personally broken my heart," but claims, "I don't have to meet Abraham Lincoln to know that he was the 16th president of the United States.""
it'll suck. just like firefly did.
/.ers in the room stand up, thier chairs falling over behind them.
And suddenly, all the
The bartender ducks behind the bar, and the theme to 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' can be heard in the background.
Them's fightin' words, mister.
An atheist is a person who does not have a belief in a god or gods
An agnostic is someone who claims that it is not possible to know whether there is a god or not.
We used the optical scan system in my county in Maryland until 2002, and then for some bizarre reason we switched to diebold. And we've been having a hell of a time getting rid of them because the Governor of MD was against them and the woman in charge of the elections had a personal grudge against him. Anyway, he was just voted out, so maybe we'll have a better shot now.
I can take games of varying length, but the amount of game you get should be reflected in the price. A good example is Beyond Good & Evil. Great, but short game. About 10 hours. I forget exactly how much it cost when it first came out, but it was less than the standard $50. Maybe $35 or something like that.
I personally welcome our new DOS-stealing philanthopist overlord.
Now, now. He didn't steal it. He bought it legitimately.
Will this affect patents that cover taking an action (either patented or public domain) at a particular place or time?
For instance, recording a music concert and burning CDs of it to sell there at the same concert.
So we aren't considering using the earthquake brick?
If you have that kind of phantom limb pain, you'd never make it to the clinic.
And then move closer to it.
Money is no substitute for happiness.
China, a known totalitatian dictatorship, is making and freely supplying to its citizens, a system by which those citizens' geographic location can be constantly tracked.
Does ANYONE think that the Chinese government might have an ulterior motive?
Clicked the checkbox off and told it not to remind me about it again.
I didn't know that, but I assumed that was the case from the wording of the joke.
We can take a very simple algorithm, place it in a robot body and drop it into a real environment, and see intelligent and intricate behaviors emerge via the robots interaction with its environment.
No, that's pretty much what I was thinking of.
"Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisement said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighbourhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches.
Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: 'Learn, guys.'"
Pratchett/Gaiman -- Good Omens
supposes that biological intelligence emerges through interactions between organisms and their environment
Umm.. duh? Haven't we known this for a while now? It's even better when your environment can react back (ie: parents playing with their babies)
umm.. won't the distortion be the same every time you take a picture of the retina? Meaning you would take a distorted picture of the retina and compare it to a distorted picture that was taken earlier. Why would you need to compensate?
Communist? Do you even have any idea what communism means? In a communist state, the MPAA wouldn't even be able to exist. The MPAA is about as capitalistic as it is possible to get.