Sure, but what are the chances of those fertile offspring breeding?
Given that polar bear / grizzly hybrids are usually made fun of by their peers and ostracized to the point of reclusiveness, I'd say none at all.
Slashdot geeks are fertile, but do you see them breeding? Same deal. Someone ought to hook these poor hybrid cubs up with HL2 so they have something to do in their parents' basements.
Underlings? Definitely. If you fit these with TASER tech, you could keep people penned in. Could do wonders for parole enforcement, or just general oppression...
I'm not sure I'd even consent to wearing one with just GPS enabled if only my wife had access to it. What if I wanted to buy her a Mothers' Day present without her knowing? It was hard enough keeping the kids from blabbing, and now I'd have to worry about my shirt blabbing?
"Word 2007 is the best thing since man landed on the moon and sliced some bread!"
Crap! Why didn't they think of low-G cooking experiments?
"That's one small slice for a man... one giant loaf for mankind." Um...
Yep, it's up there right next to the American flag waving in the faux studio's breeze. A favorite pastime of astronomers everywhere is to slowly cook it with low-powered lasers from Earth. I'll bet it's nearly done now.
You know, when people are saying that the quality of the generated data is "actually not that bad", with a surprised and delighted tilt in their voices, you know your customers aren't exactly expecting greatness anymore.
It's genius marketing at work. Grab all the market share, then lower expectations so far that people are willing to cheer about any small advance and call it "innovation." Then, you patent food and start selling Microsoft Bread, and take over the world with an iron fist wrapped around the population's stomach.
I was joking about that last part, but I'm sure some people thought I wasn't.
You obviously haven't spent much time here. If you'd been responding properly to conditioning, your vision would have clouded over when you read the word "Microsoft," you would have begun spitting expletives at your monitor, and you'd have a screaming urge to write something incoherent and vituperative in a small text box. Then you would have gone to the nearest city's Main Street and thrown raw hamburger and stale Cheeps at pedestrians.
At least, that's what's happened to me on occasion.
Taco's Scary Guys In Black need to drag you off for a few more sessions with "The Browser."
You know... if Microsoft integrated a spell checker that shows squiggly lines in Internet Explorer, the main reason I've seen for wanting to use word to blog goes away.
Less Internet-literate people (people who don't know HTML, people who are uncomfortable typing in a text editor, etc.) have plenty of reasons to want to use a familiar word processor to blog.
Heck, if OpenOffice did this, I'd use it in a heartbeat. Blogger has a decent AJAX WYSIWYG post editor, but it's got a couple of inconsistencies and doesn't nearly support the wide range of formatting options in OpenOffice's writer. OpenOffice has always produced very sane HTML as well.
I know its pretty unreasonable to ask "when is technology x coming out," but a rough order of magnitude (are we talking 10 years? 100?) has got to be doable.
It's about fifteen years away.
Five years ago, it was about ten years away. That's progress for you.
Second Life may very well actualize many of the issues brought up by crappy "we're all actually living inside a computer" science fiction stories. The turning point will be when some judge hands down a broad ruling giving in-game money the same status as out-game money.
The Harvard Law School Library bought its copy of a 1605 practice manual for Spanish lawyers decades ago, for $42.50 from an antiquarian books dealer in New Orleans.
A 1605 practice manual for Spanish lawyers bound in human skin is oddly fitting. In fact, now that I think about it, why aren't all law books bound in human skin?
Yes, gentlemen, this is my self-assembled Atari 2600, made from nothing but old hosiery, chewing gum, a banana peel, and a few locks from my very own mullet!
It's odd that Freedom never comes into the equation.
I assume you mean being free from content restrictions like DRM or software locks that let you play only approved games? Or is it software freedom, as in speech?
It's an odd and curious thing, but most people don't even consider those things. If you bother to venture into the Big Blue Room, you'll find a lot of people never think about things you consider to be deathly important.
Ever actually *tried* escargot? Seriously, its good stuff. The texture's a bit unusual, but the flavor is amazing. Calamari's another food people go 'ew' at until they actually try it. (Of course, it doesn't hurt that I've got a gourmet chef for a friend.)
Someone told me the same thing about haggis, but it didn't quite work out that way...
Word to the wise: If anybody tells you "you'll like it if you try it" about haggis, natto, or balut, run for your life.
It was sort of like the stereotypical "mad scientist" and was quite entertaining to see him play. Too bad his part did not last longer.
From articulate genius to stuttering genius. Ol' Yellow Eyes has quite a range.
Don't listen to me, though. It's late, I'm cranky, and I probably enjoyed seeing him in that movie as much as you did. It's a shame that Star Trek actors get so tied to their roles that they can never break free of them.
If they can classify the stuff, shouldn't they be able to stop it?
Or is classification going to allow them to have a flashier anti-malware tool to sell?
It could give you an idea of exactly how hosed your system is, and what, if any, kinds of remedies might actually work. If your machine is infested beyond repair, wouldn't you want to know that?
Slashdot is entirely too pragmatic, and cynical about Microsoft in general. Your post is just one example. This is Microsoft Research, which is very active in theoretical computer science. I say good on them, especially since government spending on basic science has been reduced.
Doesn't the Slashdot Hive Mind also like basic research in general?
Did anybody click on the article (yeah, yeah, I know) and actually look at that guy? I respect him, really I do - and the first thing I thought was, "Buddy, you really need to shave."
He's got to do something about the scrag before someone misidentifies him and his hoary mug ends up on Coast-to-Coast AM's web site. Or worse, someone mistakes him for Saint IGNUcious.
Interaction is great and all, but please give humanoid NPCs more rigid joints! It looks silly seeing them flopping around with elastic joints, or doing backflips after being shot in the face.
Hear hear!
I was watching a coworker play Unreal Tournament, and I had to work to keep myself from laughing every time a player got killed. It looked like someone tossed a dummy.
Also, don't forget that every person in a modern shoot-em-up is nothing but a bag of blood. They must be - it seems like 25 gallons get spilled every time a player gets maimed.
Well, "book learnin'" never was the forté of many a Wal-Mart customer.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that you're an elitist snob. I'm not sure how to put that nicely, nor how I could qualify it further to make it more understandable. Your comment is nothing but bald prejudice. It takes a place like Slashdot to mod that up.
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But how does it taste?
Somewhere between a grizzly and a polar bear, I imagine.
Sure, but what are the chances of those fertile offspring breeding?
Given that polar bear / grizzly hybrids are usually made fun of by their peers and ostracized to the point of reclusiveness, I'd say none at all.
Slashdot geeks are fertile, but do you see them breeding? Same deal. Someone ought to hook these poor hybrid cubs up with HL2 so they have something to do in their parents' basements.
How will you know unless you test it?
I got a guy to let me light him on fire once with the same logic. Can't say much for the overall experience, but by the end, by golly, he knew.
Underlords anyone?
Underlings? Definitely. If you fit these with TASER tech, you could keep people penned in. Could do wonders for parole enforcement, or just general oppression...
I'm not sure I'd even consent to wearing one with just GPS enabled if only my wife had access to it. What if I wanted to buy her a Mothers' Day present without her knowing? It was hard enough keeping the kids from blabbing, and now I'd have to worry about my shirt blabbing?
"It looks like you are whining about your life. Would you like me to set your "Now Listening To:" music tag to something appropriate?"
If Word could autocorrect teen angst, Internet content would improve 2x overnight.
Oh, and the ability to upload Word macros directly onto the internets! Wow, that should be infallible!! Right, right?
I would love to run Word macros on my own computer that IE automatically downloaded from some anonymous guy's blog post. That'd be the bees knees.
Come on, admit it. You'd enable it just for the Russion Roulette-style excitement.
"Word 2007 is the best thing since man landed on the moon and sliced some bread!"
Crap! Why didn't they think of low-G cooking experiments?
"That's one small slice for a man... one giant loaf for mankind." Um...
Yep, it's up there right next to the American flag waving in the faux studio's breeze. A favorite pastime of astronomers everywhere is to slowly cook it with low-powered lasers from Earth. I'll bet it's nearly done now.
You know, when people are saying that the quality of the generated data is "actually not that bad", with a surprised and delighted tilt in their voices, you know your customers aren't exactly expecting greatness anymore.
It's genius marketing at work. Grab all the market share, then lower expectations so far that people are willing to cheer about any small advance and call it "innovation." Then, you patent food and start selling Microsoft Bread, and take over the world with an iron fist wrapped around the population's stomach.
I was joking about that last part, but I'm sure some people thought I wasn't.
What the...
Sanity? With regards to Microsoft?
On Slashdot??
You obviously haven't spent much time here. If you'd been responding properly to conditioning, your vision would have clouded over when you read the word "Microsoft," you would have begun spitting expletives at your monitor, and you'd have a screaming urge to write something incoherent and vituperative in a small text box. Then you would have gone to the nearest city's Main Street and thrown raw hamburger and stale Cheeps at pedestrians.
At least, that's what's happened to me on occasion.
Taco's Scary Guys In Black need to drag you off for a few more sessions with "The Browser."
You know... if Microsoft integrated a spell checker that shows squiggly lines in Internet Explorer, the main reason I've seen for wanting to use word to blog goes away.
Less Internet-literate people (people who don't know HTML, people who are uncomfortable typing in a text editor, etc.) have plenty of reasons to want to use a familiar word processor to blog.
Heck, if OpenOffice did this, I'd use it in a heartbeat. Blogger has a decent AJAX WYSIWYG post editor, but it's got a couple of inconsistencies and doesn't nearly support the wide range of formatting options in OpenOffice's writer. OpenOffice has always produced very sane HTML as well.
Movies have let me down. I was supposed to be flying around Mars on my Mr. Fusion powered space car 15 years ago.
I was supposed to have a time-traveling DeLorean by now.
Did anybody else read "400 seconds" as "88 MPH?"
I know its pretty unreasonable to ask "when is technology x coming out," but a rough order of magnitude (are we talking 10 years? 100?) has got to be doable.
It's about fifteen years away.
Five years ago, it was about ten years away. That's progress for you.
One less reason to spend time in the real world.
Second Life may very well actualize many of the issues brought up by crappy "we're all actually living inside a computer" science fiction stories. The turning point will be when some judge hands down a broad ruling giving in-game money the same status as out-game money.
From the article:
The Harvard Law School Library bought its copy of a 1605 practice manual for Spanish lawyers decades ago, for $42.50 from an antiquarian books dealer in New Orleans.
A 1605 practice manual for Spanish lawyers bound in human skin is oddly fitting. In fact, now that I think about it, why aren't all law books bound in human skin?
MacGyver could easily do this one.
Yes, gentlemen, this is my self-assembled Atari 2600, made from nothing but old hosiery, chewing gum, a banana peel, and a few locks from my very own mullet!
It's odd that Freedom never comes into the equation.
I assume you mean being free from content restrictions like DRM or software locks that let you play only approved games? Or is it software freedom, as in speech?
It's an odd and curious thing, but most people don't even consider those things. If you bother to venture into the Big Blue Room, you'll find a lot of people never think about things you consider to be deathly important.
Ever actually *tried* escargot? Seriously, its good stuff. The texture's a bit unusual, but the flavor is amazing. Calamari's another food people go 'ew' at until they actually try it. (Of course, it doesn't hurt that I've got a gourmet chef for a friend.)
Someone told me the same thing about haggis, but it didn't quite work out that way...
Word to the wise: If anybody tells you "you'll like it if you try it" about haggis, natto, or balut, run for your life.
So Linux support should sell an extra what, three units?
Good on Sony.
It was sort of like the stereotypical "mad scientist" and was quite entertaining to see him play. Too bad his part did not last longer.
From articulate genius to stuttering genius. Ol' Yellow Eyes has quite a range.
Don't listen to me, though. It's late, I'm cranky, and I probably enjoyed seeing him in that movie as much as you did. It's a shame that Star Trek actors get so tied to their roles that they can never break free of them.
If they can classify the stuff, shouldn't they be able to stop it?
Or is classification going to allow them to have a flashier anti-malware tool to sell?
It could give you an idea of exactly how hosed your system is, and what, if any, kinds of remedies might actually work. If your machine is infested beyond repair, wouldn't you want to know that?
Slashdot is entirely too pragmatic, and cynical about Microsoft in general. Your post is just one example. This is Microsoft Research, which is very active in theoretical computer science. I say good on them, especially since government spending on basic science has been reduced.
Doesn't the Slashdot Hive Mind also like basic research in general?
"I'm Bad!"
You've gotten yourself mixed up with the power glove.
Did anybody click on the article (yeah, yeah, I know) and actually look at that guy? I respect him, really I do - and the first thing I thought was, "Buddy, you really need to shave."
He's got to do something about the scrag before someone misidentifies him and his hoary mug ends up on Coast-to-Coast AM's web site. Or worse, someone mistakes him for Saint IGNUcious.
Interaction is great and all, but please give humanoid NPCs more rigid joints! It looks silly seeing them flopping around with elastic joints, or doing backflips after being shot in the face.
Hear hear!
I was watching a coworker play Unreal Tournament, and I had to work to keep myself from laughing every time a player got killed. It looked like someone tossed a dummy.
Also, don't forget that every person in a modern shoot-em-up is nothing but a bag of blood. They must be - it seems like 25 gallons get spilled every time a player gets maimed.
Well, "book learnin'" never was the forté of many a Wal-Mart customer.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that you're an elitist snob. I'm not sure how to put that nicely, nor how I could qualify it further to make it more understandable. Your comment is nothing but bald prejudice. It takes a place like Slashdot to mod that up.
2: If your name can be easily insulted; it's bad (ask parents how careful they are with kids names).
I'm going to name my next boy Deennis. Nobody could possibly make fun of that name. Hip and original, too.