Their are millions of people on this planet right now who exist in even more primative conditions than the "Cowboy" setting of this show... The only difference is that they are culturally different... How can this be when we have jets, and computers, and everything we do?
The answer, and the reason the show was believeable is that their will ALWAYS be those who live on the outskirts of civilization... Even in the future, and they will almost certainly have less technology than it takes for you to read this message...
On the other hand, it's not like the whole galaxy was filled with cowboys... On the episodes where they went the center of civilization... It was very modern... Very advanced... And THEY were the strange looking ones...
On the whole, the show got me thinking about the future in a lot less 1 dimensional a way... Come to think of it... Maybe I should write a sci-fi novel that explores the even more likely scenario of the existance of culturally VARIED primative societys on the outskirts of a galactic civilization.. IE, somewhere their should be a planet of Samurai...
Google knows everything huh? How about all of the Potential pages built dynamically as the rusult of DB queries? Do google know about all of that information? It seems to me that this is the really interesting stuff, and all google would know about would be the page where you enter you're query...
It is certainly good advice that we should all learn to be better photographers... But I have to say... One of the things I've always loved about digital camera's is that it is SO easy to take pictures and store them that I for one take a LOT more pictures than I used to... and a lot more of them are spontaneous and fun... I don't think these HD's full of photos are a bad thing...
I had a problem with my earthlink account once... I called tech support, and was basically told to go F$$$ myself... So I emailed their CEO, and the next day I had a phone call from his personal assistant on my voice mail... and the problem was fixed immediatley...:)
GM food is the technology that will feed the entire planet.
For once, please, someone think more than 1 step in advance.
A company is not going to force a dangerous product on a population as that would RUIN their future earning potential. Corporations are all about their bottom line, and that is a GOOD THING.
I'm not saying mistakes won't be made... But seriousley, I bet you run a much higher risk taking a prescription from a doctor, or submitting to any medical procedure for instance. Are you going to stop seeing the doctor because their is a risk that you could be prescribed a drug that you are allergic to? Or give some procedure that puts you in a wheel chair?
If you are rich enough to afford avoiding all GM food, then GREAT. I'm happy for you. But tell someone starving that their is a 1% chance this bag of rice will make them sick and see what they're reaction is.
This site has gotten to be SO LEFTIST as to be almost ridiculous. Actually, it's really kind of funny... It's almost to the point that their isn't even a pretense of balance...
What I want to know is how Windows detected here that "Kernel32 is not responding"... Maybe Kernel32 is not the REAL kernel?:) Maybe their is a shodowy overlord kernel who's really running the show (perhaps a linux kernel?):)
So, assuming that we are raising the temperature of the planet, and this WILL someday cause a problem. So What? We are doing this accidently. Imagine what we could do if we set our minds to it and actually TRIED to modify the environment (like say, cool it down). I bet we could undo in 20 years what we did accidently in 100.
Why don't they just make a new "F U" tax. They can increase it whenever they like, however much they like. This way, instead of taxing each little thing, they can just increase the "F U" tax. They could probably throw away thousands upon thousands of pages of tax code.
It seems like everyone on this site is completely ignorant.
Their may be a few people who own this equipment who were not using it illegally, and to you I wish good luck and I sincerely hope you find a way to get out of this mess.
Anyone who was using this equipment to steal DirecTV I have no sympathy for however. Digital stealing may not be as bad as stealing in the real world (if you have 2 apples and I take one, you only have one left. If this were software however, you would still have 2), but it is still theft because it de-values the source. A source that many people put money, and effort into building and maintaining. How much it de-values the source depends upon how efficient the theft is (p2p is very efficient. This is much less).
I have a friend with this setup. He offered it to me, and I turned him down. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you should.
Those "evil corporations" you hate so much are the ones who feed, clothe, entertain and educate you. The greed of those who have come before you make you're very existence possible.
If it only takes an hour to get a 40% performance increase, why didn't you take that hour before the FX came out, and then you could have actually beaten the radeon 9800.
Or better yet, spend a couple hours and figure out a way to get rid of the locomotive like cooling system built into the FX....
Notice how we are here, getting angry at NVDA for this. They will pay a cost for this. This is how the "man's" system works. You may screw the people, but they will eventually get the last laugh.
I definatley agree that philosophy is dying, but I think it's because a lot of modern philosophy denies the existance of any absolute. This of course means that the philosophy itself cannot be absolute.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't have "Alien Phobia"... I have "Alien Homo Phobia"...
Tony
Their are millions of people on this planet right now who exist in even more primative conditions than the "Cowboy" setting of this show... The only difference is that they are culturally different... How can this be when we have jets, and computers, and everything we do?
The answer, and the reason the show was believeable is that their will ALWAYS be those who live on the outskirts of civilization... Even in the future, and they will almost certainly have less technology than it takes for you to read this message...
On the other hand, it's not like the whole galaxy was filled with cowboys... On the episodes where they went the center of civilization... It was very modern... Very advanced... And THEY were the strange looking ones...
On the whole, the show got me thinking about the future in a lot less 1 dimensional a way... Come to think of it... Maybe I should write a sci-fi novel that explores the even more likely scenario of the existance of culturally VARIED primative societys on the outskirts of a galactic civilization.. IE, somewhere their should be a planet of Samurai...
You've got it backwards buddy...
Google knows everything huh? How about all of the Potential pages built dynamically as the rusult of DB queries? Do google know about all of that information? It seems to me that this is the really interesting stuff, and all google would know about would be the page where you enter you're query...
Tony
It is certainly good advice that we should all learn to be better photographers... But I have to say... One of the things I've always loved about digital camera's is that it is SO easy to take pictures and store them that I for one take a LOT more pictures than I used to... and a lot more of them are spontaneous and fun... I don't think these HD's full of photos are a bad thing...
Tony
Go to the bookstore and look for a book called "Masters of Doom"... This exact thing happens a lot...
Tony
I had a problem with my earthlink account once... I called tech support, and was basically told to go F$$$ myself... So I emailed their CEO, and the next day I had a phone call from his personal assistant on my voice mail... and the problem was fixed immediatley... :)
Tony
I've got hacker@earthlink.net... Anyone want to buy it?
Tony
Yup. Their is about 1 sane (when it comes to copyright law) person out of 100 on slashdot these days.
Tony
TSIA
GM food is the technology that will feed the entire planet.
For once, please, someone think more than 1 step in advance.
A company is not going to force a dangerous product on a population as that would RUIN their future earning potential. Corporations are all about their bottom line, and that is a GOOD THING.
I'm not saying mistakes won't be made... But seriousley, I bet you run a much higher risk taking a prescription from a doctor, or submitting to any medical procedure for instance. Are you going to stop seeing the doctor because their is a risk that you could be prescribed a drug that you are allergic to? Or give some procedure that puts you in a wheel chair?
If you are rich enough to afford avoiding all GM food, then GREAT. I'm happy for you. But tell someone starving that their is a 1% chance this bag of rice will make them sick and see what they're reaction is.
This site has gotten to be SO LEFTIST as to be almost ridiculous. Actually, it's really kind of funny... It's almost to the point that their isn't even a pretense of balance...
Excellent Post!
Yeah! We want something for nothing, and we want it NOW!
I thought the first hour of Gattaca was totally engrossing. The ending was marvelous. All in all, one of my favorite movies.
What major new features can we expect? Hopefully it's loads faster.
Tony
What I want to know is how Windows detected here that "Kernel32 is not responding"... Maybe Kernel32 is not the REAL kernel? :) Maybe their is a shodowy overlord kernel who's really running the show (perhaps a linux kernel?) :)
ovit
But a lot of Linux people really DONT have any respect for copyrights.
Tony
So, assuming that we are raising the temperature of the planet, and this WILL someday cause a problem. So What? We are doing this accidently. Imagine what we could do if we set our minds to it and actually TRIED to modify the environment (like say, cool it down). I bet we could undo in 20 years what we did accidently in 100.
Why don't they just make a new "F U" tax. They can increase it whenever they like, however much they like. This way, instead of taxing each little thing, they can just increase the "F U" tax. They could probably throw away thousands upon thousands of pages of tax code.
It seems like everyone on this site is completely ignorant.
Their may be a few people who own this equipment who were not using it illegally, and to you I wish good luck and I sincerely hope you find a way to get out of this mess.
Anyone who was using this equipment to steal DirecTV I have no sympathy for however. Digital stealing may not be as bad as stealing in the real world (if you have 2 apples and I take one, you only have one left. If this were software however, you would still have 2), but it is still theft because it de-values the source. A source that many people put money, and effort into building and maintaining. How much it de-values the source depends upon how efficient the theft is (p2p is very efficient. This is much less).
I have a friend with this setup. He offered it to me, and I turned him down. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you should.
Those "evil corporations" you hate so much are the ones who feed, clothe, entertain and educate you. The greed of those who have come before you make you're very existence possible.
I'm sorry, I just hate mindless corp bashing...
If it only takes an hour to get a 40% performance increase, why didn't you take that hour before the FX came out, and then you could have actually beaten the radeon 9800.
Or better yet, spend a couple hours and figure out a way to get rid of the locomotive like cooling system built into the FX....
Notice how we are here, getting angry at NVDA for this. They will pay a cost for this. This is how the "man's" system works. You may screw the people, but they will eventually get the last laugh.
You make some good points.
I definatley agree that philosophy is dying, but I think it's because a lot of modern philosophy denies the existance of any absolute. This of course means that the philosophy itself cannot be absolute.