"and will bypass the intermediate stages of milli- and micro-machines."
micro-machines were okay, but you gotta admit, Matchbox cars were the shit. Yeah yeah, off topic, sorry. =)
I just want to exercise my literacy by adding something about Alan Natapof's article. First off, you really shouldn't use baseball to descibe why the electoral college is "a good thing". But, lets take what he says as true, and think about it like that world series (as asinine as that may be). So, it's not a matter of who has the most runs, but who wins the most games (so, runs as being voters, games being states). Okay, so after the games are won, the runs themselves no longer matter, just the amount of games the winner won. Okay, but what if some of those games really didn't count as much because of how many runs were hit? Was that in his equation? But, if you're voting , you're voting on who the state chooses for president, not who you personally want. In the long run, all of us runs don't really matter. Personally, I'd rather be benched.
This article was mostly using "If we look at human work and the factories the work is done in as a whole, then we have self replicating factories!" And the latest nanotechnology I've seen, was mostly nano-scale tools, and one motor that was driven by heat. Any nano-robot thingies that live in your trunk until you pull over. . . just might be a little too small to change a tire, or to repair a busted hose. As for replicating materials that we don't have. . . well, as far as I know, if we don't have something, we can't make something out of it. Too much "Jetsons" based thinking here. I think I'd rather have spent that 5 or so minutes that I read this article playing the old Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game.
I work at a pretty good college, and every student has to submit a copy of their thesis to one of the libraries here. So, from what I know, I think anyone could come in and read a past students thesis and copy pretty much anything out of it. And a lot of the code that is written here is done for a class, and by small groups of people. I think it should be under GPL, not for sale. I'f I'm wrong, please correct me.
I wonder If EverQuest is Running Back Oriface 2000.
Well, a co-worker was telling me I should get EQ, but my reply was, "I'm all set with giving out another $10 a month." Now I can happily add my privacy, and my bandwidth to that.
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"and will bypass the intermediate stages of milli- and micro-machines." micro-machines were okay, but you gotta admit, Matchbox cars were the shit. Yeah yeah, off topic, sorry. =)
I just want to exercise my literacy by adding something about Alan Natapof's article. First off, you really shouldn't use baseball to descibe why the electoral college is "a good thing". But, lets take what he says as true, and think about it like that world series (as asinine as that may be). So, it's not a matter of who has the most runs, but who wins the most games (so, runs as being voters, games being states). Okay, so after the games are won, the runs themselves no longer matter, just the amount of games the winner won. Okay, but what if some of those games really didn't count as much because of how many runs were hit? Was that in his equation? But, if you're voting , you're voting on who the state chooses for president, not who you personally want. In the long run, all of us runs don't really matter. Personally, I'd rather be benched.
No, but they will send you to Hell.
This article was mostly using "If we look at human work and the factories the work is done in as a whole, then we have self replicating factories!" And the latest nanotechnology I've seen, was mostly nano-scale tools, and one motor that was driven by heat. Any nano-robot thingies that live in your trunk until you pull over. . . just might be a little too small to change a tire, or to repair a busted hose. As for replicating materials that we don't have. . . well, as far as I know, if we don't have something, we can't make something out of it. Too much "Jetsons" based thinking here. I think I'd rather have spent that 5 or so minutes that I read this article playing the old Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game.
I work at a pretty good college, and every student has to submit a copy of their thesis to one of the libraries here. So, from what I know, I think anyone could come in and read a past students thesis and copy pretty much anything out of it. And a lot of the code that is written here is done for a class, and by small groups of people. I think it should be under GPL, not for sale. I'f I'm wrong, please correct me.
I wonder If EverQuest is Running Back Oriface 2000. Well, a co-worker was telling me I should get EQ, but my reply was, "I'm all set with giving out another $10 a month." Now I can happily add my privacy, and my bandwidth to that.