We can't get to it anytime soon. Unless the EM-drive can scale up we have no propulsion system that will get us there within a reasonable timeframe (1 lifetime), we're currently talking about a 1000-year trip, which is impossible, we can't build anything that will last that long.
Unless there's some kind of breakthrough (Warp drive, 4th dimensional slips, tesseract), in our ability to to deal with vast distances, we haven't got a prayer.
I don't see "sex robots" in his list of things to be excited about. I fail to understand why I should be excited about self driving cars, but a robot GF would actually change the world.
But seriously, the Japanese are WAAAAAY ahead on all of this. First of all, the Japanese dolls are much better looking, much more realistic-looking. Secondly the Japanese are ahead on Robotics, I assume you've seen their Uncanny Valley creepy talking heads.
Now admittedly, RealDoll's effort may advance the whole industry, but the RealDolls look fairly plastic and aren't all that attractive. Silicone is durable, but it doesn't seem to be the material of choice for true doll afficianados.
Not that I know anything about all this, of course.
Comcast in Quincy MA (just outside Boston) is charging their customers for fast internet, but according to my buddies over there, the speed is just faster than a modem.
The entire town has essentially called Comcast to complain, and they've done nothing to fix it, and this has been going on for over a month.
And the best part? Apparently, there's no alternative for internet access. And you're within sight of a major metropolitan area.
VW has cause to sue. According the the DMCA, you're not allowed to "reverse engineer" their proprietary software and trade secrets. This is a clear violation of VW's copyrights and trademarks.
And as we all know, corporations have way more rights than people, and since the US government is of the people, for the people, by the people, it's people, and therefore VW has more rights than it does.
So, the US government had better watch out or they could face serious fines and jail time.
If it were a national security issue, no one would be allowed to spoof a return number of have an anonymous number. Look how the Feds want to make sure everyone uses their real identity on the internet, but they don't seem to give a damn about the telephone network.
And the RIAA and MPAA want to be able to trace and sue every john doe by the IP#, but they also don't give a damn about the telephone network.
So it seems that, in a world of TCP/IP, dial-up is the frontier of the hacking world because companies and governments don't care about it. Hrrrrmmmm.
Then NBC should contract with ISIS to make sure there's a terrorist event. Nothing glues eyeballs to the TV like something blowing up and killing some athletes.
I mean, when you're spending 1.29 Billion, what's another million or two to make sure somebody gets killed on live TV? Didn't you folks ever see the movie "Network" ?
I am 51. I was a virgin until I was 41. And that relationship that devirginized me, was the only relationship I've ever had that involved sex. Oh sure, I've made use of "services" since then, and I've had other GFs, but none that involved sex. In fact, I've now been dating the same girl for 2 years, and we've never had sex.
And it's like I'm some kind of hideous, obese monster. I'm very normal, polite to a fault, and patient. Perhaps too patient and too polite and women seem to key in on this and essentially "friendzone" me.
I used to get a little angry and frustrated about this, but now I pretty much do not care. It's not that important and frankly, now I'm getting too old to really give a damn anymore.I've gotten pretty much what I've wanted to out of life for the most part and I'm satisfied with where I am.
But yeah, I sometimes regret not getting involved with the ladies much earlier in life. But I played the cards I was dealt as well as I could. And that's that. As for the current generation having less sex than gen-X'ers, I stand as a proud example that this study can stick it where the sun don't shine. It's bullshit.
Not necessarily. You *can* influence a large organization *if* they think they can make money off your idea. For example, I was at the NYC Auto Show with my GF -- and we were sitting in one of those giant Fiat-500 looking half-SUV things. And it had a glass roof which we liked.
But my GF complained that the vehicle was too tall, making it difficult for her to get snow off the roof (she prefers station wagons to SUVs, and very few manufacturers make wagons anymore).
So, we were talking with the booth rep, and when she brought up the snow situation, I threw out an idea:
"Why don't you guys run the heating wires through the glass roof, like you do with the back window? Then you can just heat up the glass and all the snow melts away."
I'm telling you now, the guy whipped out an iPad, and typed furiously "defroster for glass roof", and I'm sure in a few years, this feature will appear.
I have yet to see a recent release of a film on home video that didn't contain the phrase "Includes scenes not in the theatrical release!"
You know, if they'd release the movie without chopping it to death so they can hold back and then re-sell the movie with added scenes for the home video release, maybe the "theater expereince" would be better.
But I fail to see why I pay $12 per seat, followed by $30 for a water and popcorn, and then have three screaming kids in the dark, and some other jerkwad kicking my seat from behind, when I have a nice high-def TV at home, and can pause it at any time to go to the bathroom.
There are a lot of windows partners that sell hardware that BARELY runs Windows 10 as it is. In the race to make cheaper and cheaper hardware, there are products like the HP Stream notebook that comes with only 2GB of RAM and Windows 10 pre-installed. By the time you're done booting up, you have maybe 500mb of RAM available to run *A* application. (do not try and run multiple applications)...
And that's with most of the crap turned off. My guess is that people with minimal hardware who choose to update, won't even get to the desktop before running out of RAM.
Maybe you young'ns can't remember, but I remember when you had to access Yahoo by an IP address (since DNS wasn't a thing then), and then all it really was, was a directory of links to other sites that existed. No such thing as a search engine back then.
The founders capitalized on that, and at one point, Yahoo was the biggest, best thing on the world wide web. Then they decided that the "portal" thing was the way to go, and after that, it was kinda downhill from there.
And then Google came and ate their lunch, and after that were a series of terrible CEOs that didn't understand the company at all (probably because there was no cohesive strategy to understand -- they grew too rapidly at the start for that).
Bye Bye Yahoo. You were great for a little while in the early days, and I appreciated what you did for the web. But I don't think you were ever meant to be a commercial venture, and essentially that was your downfall.
And yet Trump keeps telling his rubes that jobs are coming back. They are not coming back. Workers will be replaced by robots. How he's going to force companies to manufacture in the USA without adding legislation (because he said he would reduce legislation against corporations) is beyond me...
They simply have to do what everyone else does to get around emissions -- classify their vehicles as trucks. *EVERY* pick-up and SUV is a "truck" in the eyes of federal law, and therefore don't need to meet the strict emissions guidelines for passenger automobiles.
Take the Golf, Jetta, Passat and every other Diesel car and have them reclassified as a truck. You'll probably have to make some "campaign donations" to some senators and congressmen, but it's probably far cheaper than this scandal.
And that's it. If the TDI Golf is a truck, then case closed, it can pretty much pollute as much as it wants. This looks like the easiest way out and I believe that VW should spend what they need to, to buy off Congress and get on with their business of being a "job creator" that avoids paying taxes and performs other heinous acts in the name of "good business".
I'm sure they said that about Hitler... oh wait, did I just Godwin this thread? But voting for someone who swaggers, is obviously racist, will probably declare Marshall Law to keep himself in power, and will nuke anyone who sends him an offensive tweet is *not* a good idea unless you are hoping for a world war and to become the most hated country on Earth.
I thought the *entire* point of SNAPCHAT was that nothing was supposed to be saved! That was the entire point of their business model, their venture capital and their IPO (if it exists).
So, after it was revealed that they actually do save shit, now they are going to embrace that, and allow you to revisit your old nude selfies that are already all over the internet.
It's like Facebook suddenly switching gears and announcing that they are going to model themselves after Yahoo, and become a search engine.
Screw it, I'm going to start a business with an impossible plan, then, after I've gotten millions in capital, I'll announce that the company is something else, get my sock puppet and sell dog food over the internet.
Notepad comes free with every copy of Windows. It even existed in the days on Windows 3.1 and Windows CE.
PICO works great under Linux, I can't remember the name of the App I used in Chrome, Tex-Edit Plus on the Macintosh, and desqview I think had a notepad under DOS. iPhone with bluetooth keyboard and Notes App.
And on the Amiga, I used... oh wait, I guess you don't care about those days. But maybe you want to hear about Quick Brown Box on the Commodore 64?
What were we talking about again? Who cares about Evernote? What's the point of it unless you're someone who thinks they are doing business while they are sitting on a bus or a park bench?
So, lemme get this straight.... If "Saturday Night Live" created the exact same video and broadcast it, we'd all laugh, and then go back to ignoring it.
But if some clowns post this video to the internet, it's a takedown via the DMCA -- and 38,000 sites also suffer due to someone's fat finger mistake.
So once again, citizens have no rights, but corporations do. Meanwhile, the GUN NUTS are screaming about their second amendment rights, but guess what, that's apparently the ONLY right you have, because that was the only one you cared about.
The politicians and corporations have you so FOCUSED on your gun rights, they have secretly deprived you of all other rights, and guess what? YOU FELL FOR IT.
I hope you've got your gun, because you're going to need it real soon.... This country has been usurped by the wealthy and greedy and your gun, which was supposed to protect you from tyrants, well, that pop gun won't do squat against drones and tanks and RPGs. Good luck with that.
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We can't get to it anytime soon.
Unless the EM-drive can scale up we have no propulsion system that will get us there within a reasonable timeframe (1 lifetime), we're currently talking about a 1000-year trip, which is impossible, we can't build anything that will last that long.
Unless there's some kind of breakthrough (Warp drive, 4th dimensional slips, tesseract), in our ability to to deal with vast distances, we haven't got a prayer.
I don't see "sex robots" in his list of things to be excited about. I fail to understand why I should be excited about self driving cars, but a robot GF would actually change the world.
But seriously, the Japanese are WAAAAAY ahead on all of this. First of all, the Japanese dolls are much better looking, much more realistic-looking. Secondly the Japanese are ahead on Robotics, I assume you've seen their Uncanny Valley creepy talking heads.
Now admittedly, RealDoll's effort may advance the whole industry, but the RealDolls look fairly plastic and aren't all that attractive. Silicone is durable, but it doesn't seem to be the material of choice for true doll afficianados.
Not that I know anything about all this, of course.
And they too claimed that Global Warming was a myth! Drill baby drill! And look where they are now. Here on earth, trying to do the same damage.
Comcast in Quincy MA (just outside Boston) is charging their customers for fast internet, but according to my buddies over there, the speed is just faster than a modem.
The entire town has essentially called Comcast to complain, and they've done nothing to fix it, and this has been going on for over a month.
And the best part? Apparently, there's no alternative for internet access. And you're within sight of a major metropolitan area.
VW has cause to sue. According the the DMCA, you're not allowed to "reverse engineer" their proprietary software and trade secrets. This is a clear violation of VW's copyrights and trademarks.
And as we all know, corporations have way more rights than people, and since the US government is of the people, for the people, by the people, it's people, and therefore VW has more rights than it does.
So, the US government had better watch out or they could face serious fines and jail time.
If it were a national security issue, no one would be allowed to spoof a return number of have an anonymous number. Look how the Feds want to make sure everyone uses their real identity on the internet, but they don't seem to give a damn about the telephone network.
And the RIAA and MPAA want to be able to trace and sue every john doe by the IP#, but they also don't give a damn about the telephone network.
So it seems that, in a world of TCP/IP, dial-up is the frontier of the hacking world because companies and governments don't care about it. Hrrrrmmmm.
Then NBC should contract with ISIS to make sure there's a terrorist event. Nothing glues eyeballs to the TV like something blowing up and killing some athletes.
I mean, when you're spending 1.29 Billion, what's another million or two to make sure somebody gets killed on live TV? Didn't you folks ever see the movie "Network" ?
I am 51. I was a virgin until I was 41. And that relationship that devirginized me, was the only relationship I've ever had that involved sex. Oh sure, I've made use of "services" since then, and I've had other GFs, but none that involved sex. In fact, I've now been dating the same girl for 2 years, and we've never had sex.
And it's like I'm some kind of hideous, obese monster. I'm very normal, polite to a fault, and patient. Perhaps too patient and too polite and women seem to key in on this and essentially "friendzone" me.
I used to get a little angry and frustrated about this, but now I pretty much do not care. It's not that important and frankly, now I'm getting too old to really give a damn anymore.I've gotten pretty much what I've wanted to out of life for the most part and I'm satisfied with where I am.
But yeah, I sometimes regret not getting involved with the ladies much earlier in life. But I played the cards I was dealt as well as I could. And that's that. As for the current generation having less sex than gen-X'ers, I stand as a proud example that this study can stick it where the sun don't shine. It's bullshit.
They *could* take the sky away from you.....
You can't stop the signal, eh Mr. universe?
Not necessarily. You *can* influence a large organization *if* they think they can make money off your idea. For example, I was at the NYC Auto Show with my GF -- and we were sitting in one of those giant Fiat-500 looking half-SUV things. And it had a glass roof which we liked.
But my GF complained that the vehicle was too tall, making it difficult for her to get snow off the roof (she prefers station wagons to SUVs, and very few manufacturers make wagons anymore).
So, we were talking with the booth rep, and when she brought up the snow situation, I threw out an idea:
"Why don't you guys run the heating wires through the glass roof, like you do with the back window? Then you can just heat up the glass and all the snow melts away."
I'm telling you now, the guy whipped out an iPad, and typed furiously "defroster for glass roof", and I'm sure in a few years, this feature will appear.
I have yet to see a recent release of a film on home video that didn't contain the phrase "Includes scenes not in the theatrical release!"
You know, if they'd release the movie without chopping it to death so they can hold back and then re-sell the movie with added scenes for the home video release, maybe the "theater expereince" would be better.
But I fail to see why I pay $12 per seat, followed by $30 for a water and popcorn, and then have three screaming kids in the dark, and some other jerkwad kicking my seat from behind, when I have a nice high-def TV at home, and can pause it at any time to go to the bathroom.
There are a lot of windows partners that sell hardware that BARELY runs Windows 10 as it is. In the race to make cheaper and cheaper hardware, there are products like the HP Stream notebook that comes with only 2GB of RAM and Windows 10 pre-installed. By the time you're done booting up, you have maybe 500mb of RAM available to run *A* application. (do not try and run multiple applications)...
And that's with most of the crap turned off. My guess is that people with minimal hardware who choose to update, won't even get to the desktop before running out of RAM.
Trump invites Arabs to fly airplanes into the Wells Fargo Convention Center on Thursday night!
That'll show 'em!
Maybe you young'ns can't remember, but I remember when you had to access Yahoo by an IP address (since DNS wasn't a thing then), and then all it really was, was a directory of links to other sites that existed. No such thing as a search engine back then.
The founders capitalized on that, and at one point, Yahoo was the biggest, best thing on the world wide web. Then they decided that the "portal" thing was the way to go, and after that, it was kinda downhill from there.
And then Google came and ate their lunch, and after that were a series of terrible CEOs that didn't understand the company at all (probably because there was no cohesive strategy to understand -- they grew too rapidly at the start for that).
Bye Bye Yahoo. You were great for a little while in the early days, and I appreciated what you did for the web. But I don't think you were ever meant to be a commercial venture, and essentially that was your downfall.
And yet Trump keeps telling his rubes that jobs are coming back. They are not coming back. Workers will be replaced by robots. How he's going to force companies to manufacture in the USA without adding legislation (because he said he would reduce legislation against corporations) is beyond me...
They simply have to do what everyone else does to get around emissions -- classify their vehicles as trucks. *EVERY* pick-up and SUV is a "truck" in the eyes of federal law, and therefore don't need to meet the strict emissions guidelines for passenger automobiles.
Take the Golf, Jetta, Passat and every other Diesel car and have them reclassified as a truck. You'll probably have to make some "campaign donations" to some senators and congressmen, but it's probably far cheaper than this scandal.
And that's it. If the TDI Golf is a truck, then case closed, it can pretty much pollute as much as it wants. This looks like the easiest way out and I believe that VW should spend what they need to, to buy off Congress and get on with their business of being a "job creator" that avoids paying taxes and performs other heinous acts in the name of "good business".
I'm sure they said that about Hitler... oh wait, did I just Godwin this thread? But voting for someone who swaggers, is obviously racist, will probably declare Marshall Law to keep himself in power, and will nuke anyone who sends him an offensive tweet is *not* a good idea unless you are hoping for a world war and to become the most hated country on Earth.
Mod up.
All he needs is Janik's little black box. It looks like a telephone answering machine...
I thought the *entire* point of SNAPCHAT was that nothing was supposed to be saved! That was the entire point of their business model, their venture capital and their IPO (if it exists).
So, after it was revealed that they actually do save shit, now they are going to embrace that, and allow you to revisit your old nude selfies that are already all over the internet.
It's like Facebook suddenly switching gears and announcing that they are going to model themselves after Yahoo, and become a search engine.
Screw it, I'm going to start a business with an impossible plan, then, after I've gotten millions in capital, I'll announce that the company is something else, get my sock puppet and sell dog food over the internet.
Notepad comes free with every copy of Windows. It even existed in the days on Windows 3.1 and Windows CE.
PICO works great under Linux, I can't remember the name of the App I used in Chrome, Tex-Edit Plus on the Macintosh, and desqview I think had a notepad under DOS. iPhone with bluetooth keyboard and Notes App.
And on the Amiga, I used... oh wait, I guess you don't care about those days. But maybe you want to hear about Quick Brown Box on the Commodore 64?
What were we talking about again? Who cares about Evernote? What's the point of it unless you're someone who thinks they are doing business while they are sitting on a bus or a park bench?
So, lemme get this straight.... If "Saturday Night Live" created the exact same video and broadcast it, we'd all laugh, and then go back to ignoring it.
But if some clowns post this video to the internet, it's a takedown via the DMCA -- and 38,000 sites also suffer due to someone's fat finger mistake.
So once again, citizens have no rights, but corporations do. Meanwhile, the GUN NUTS are screaming about their second amendment rights, but guess what, that's apparently the ONLY right you have, because that was the only one you cared about.
The politicians and corporations have you so FOCUSED on your gun rights, they have secretly deprived you of all other rights, and guess what? YOU FELL FOR IT.
I hope you've got your gun, because you're going to need it real soon.... This country has been usurped by the wealthy and greedy and your gun, which was supposed to protect you from tyrants, well, that pop gun won't do squat against drones and tanks and RPGs. Good luck with that.
Can't wait for these cars to be "recycled" through the Pre-Owned market with no warranty of any kind, but sold for a third of what they should be.
I love the TDI engine, who cares if it pollutes? I have no kids and I'm over 50 -- I ain't living forever.