> He called it 'Hacker Proof' in that speech,
> referring to the fact that it was a sealed
> chassis, not user openable.
Until you could order the Mac Canopener for $10.95 from any Mac software mail order, for use in upgrading your RAM in your Mac Plus (don't forget to clip that resistor!) I.e. a very long allen wrench.
Actually, these would be beautiful on the Netherlands' bike paths. They've got bike stoplights at intersections, bike suspension bridges. That 50% tax rate on all salaries above $4.98/year paid for quite an infrastructure.
Once VAT, import, and exchange rates are done with these, they'll be about $6k over there.
How long until someone puts a damned seat on one of these stupid things, anyway?
Why should I stand to scoot around? I've already given up on the exercise. Might as well travel in comfort. I can lean while seated as easily as I can stand.
And let's not forget the cup holder. It has to hold a big gulp (old style) sized cup, thank you very much. And where do I put the shopping I just did, or my valise? I persume some kind of handlebar basket, or maybe a lil' trailer in the future?
Whatever happened to that giant flying cup people would stand in? Was all computer controlled so you did little more than this, to be used by commanders in battlefields.
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It wouldn't generate any thrust. The machine, in fact, would emulate walking by the famed "controlled fall", i.e. would keep the bottom with the wheels constantly trying to "catch up" to the falling top.
I want to know how it stays balanced while not moving. A spinning flywheel only slows a tip, not stops it. Therefore, the thing must make micro-adjustments on the wheels to keep things balanced, or have a shifting weight...yeah...that could work...
I'll just hide behind this metal shipping container. That'll block the phaser!
> Also, are we to believe that the people of earth
> are so stupid that they wouldn't realize that
> their weaponry is worst than it was during the
> 20th Century?
It's the computer game syndrome. In reality, the slightest gust would disrupt a "magical spellcaster". A 10-foot tall, 4000-lb ogre who can lift 10 tons and swings a 200-lb sword at the caster would not "whif" for 10 points of damage, sorry.
That that idiocy is making it into the movies is kind of sad.
Of course, it's possible materials science has produced such indestructable, but light, materials for shipping containers.
So light, in fact, that they should be used as armor, too.
But that's another problem.
Presumably, this movie will be post-Voyager, so they should have a massive high-tech upgrade with the armor plating, the 26th century holo emitter, the high speed transwarp information that Voyager, all alone, picked up but couldn't capitalize on, and so on.
I don't see why the Romulans would be anything but a bunch of Taliban to the Federation.
1 was very good
2 was awesome3 was so-so
4 and 5 sucked. These are the voyages of the Star Ship Enterprise, not the voyages of the Klingon PT Boat Warbird. That damned thing changed size by a factor of 20 depending on the scene, for crying out loud.
Then the Borg come in a completely underwhelming story.
Then not much happens until Insurrection, which was a dumb story, but had a cute female guest star.
Although the two best, Kahn and, ugh, shave the whales, both relied heavily on dialog, which is to say, philosophy and tactics for Kahn, and humor for Whales.
I also think it made the first, the Vger story, one of the best, but I'm evidently in the minority. I always did like the cosmic stories better than most. Who wants to see little men lift little weights?
Well, Voyager had the honor of taking out the entire Borg galactic transwarp conduit system for its last episode, so Kirk doing in the Borg for his death isn't out of the question.
> It's because our land lines are so fantastically cheap to use (per minute charges: zero)
An excellent point. I nations that have, or recently used to have, no-competition national PTT coercive monopolies, cell phones are the way to go.
Ironically, in 3rd world and developing countries, they are the way to go, too, because wiring up a bunch of towers is a heck of a lot cheaper than wiring up every single building.
Also, in the US, as cheap as land line phones are, cell phones are picking up steam, too. I heard a statistic somewhere (someone can correct) where something like 30% of US homes no longer even had a land line phone account anymore, relying solely on cheap cell phones. 7 cents a minute, anywhere in the US, is doing pretty well.
> Other species may have no interest in
> colonization. Wanting to spread your seed among
> the stars may be a purely human affair.
Although as a Scientific American article on this subject a few years ago said, the only intelligent species we have any actual data on, our own, hasn't destroyed itself, yet, and has every indication of being expansionist.
Even a civilization based on the severest combination of Ludditism, communism, and radical environmentalism would eventually spread through space.
Wasn't there a case where all the disgusting, illegal pr0n was checked out of the Library of Congress (which only Congresscreatures can do) and kept out for months at a crack?
Flip to the end of my argument, basically it turns out that consciousness is purely information-based, and a faster-than-light communication medium allows people to live in a pan-universal world that is 99% virtual.
Or, none of you exist and I'm God on some kind of bizarre, memory-wiped (to prevent boredom) existance, although if that were the case, I think I'd be some kind of billionaire lesbian supermodel.
Part of the problem is that, in my opinion, the likely values for the following are:
fl = the fraction of those planets where life develops = 1.0
fi = the fraction of planets with life where intelligence develops = 1.0
fc = the fraction of those planets that achieve technology which releases detectable signals into space = 1.0
L = the lifetime of such communicative civilizations = more or less infinity
This indicates a huge number of civilizations, yet we detect none.
So...Fermii Paradox, not only why haven't we detected any, but why aren't they omnipresend and we were born into a universe-wide civilzation?
Catastrophic events (nuclear war, or physics problems that would lead to destruction of the planet, runaway nanotech, too-easy-to-craft viruses, etc.) may destroy some, maybe even the vast majority. However, some must have made it through, if in no other instance, then there must be some planets with one smallish continent that had dictatorship on it that made it to the stars (depressing, but true.)
So that's out, so what's left? I've rejected it being "rare", i.e. we are the first.
The only solution is a variation of "dying out". That is to say, the "radio band use" window of a civilization is rather small, and then they move on to something better (which is to say, much faster than light.)
So, given that, an entrepeneurial physicist should look beyond radio waves for something else in physics. There may very well be vast galactic, if not universal, "cable channels" we can tap into. We only need figure it out.
The other possibility -- this is a bizarre virtual reality of some sort, nature unknown, purpose unknown, surrounding metareality unknown.
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> Just think of all the new locking "Segway racks"
> alongside (replacing?) the bike racks.
Has it been tested for bums peeing on it? Could be a lawsuit and massive recall in the making...
> He called it 'Hacker Proof' in that speech,
> referring to the fact that it was a sealed
> chassis, not user openable.
Until you could order the Mac Canopener for $10.95 from any Mac software mail order, for use in upgrading your RAM in your Mac Plus (don't forget to clip that resistor!) I.e. a very long allen wrench.
Actually, these would be beautiful on the Netherlands' bike paths. They've got bike stoplights at intersections, bike suspension bridges. That 50% tax rate on all salaries above $4.98/year paid for quite an infrastructure.
Once VAT, import, and exchange rates are done with these, they'll be about $6k over there.
> Think of all the pain on his/her knee joints.
How long until someone puts a damned seat on one of these stupid things, anyway?
Why should I stand to scoot around? I've already given up on the exercise. Might as well travel in comfort. I can lean while seated as easily as I can stand.
And let's not forget the cup holder. It has to hold a big gulp (old style) sized cup, thank you very much. And where do I put the shopping I just did, or my valise? I persume some kind of handlebar basket, or maybe a lil' trailer in the future?
Yeah yeah, I've heard it all before.
Whatever happened to that giant flying cup people would stand in? Was all computer controlled so you did little more than this, to be used by commanders in battlefields.
It wouldn't generate any thrust. The machine, in fact, would emulate walking by the famed "controlled fall", i.e. would keep the bottom with the wheels constantly trying to "catch up" to the falling top.
I want to know how it stays balanced while not moving. A spinning flywheel only slows a tip, not stops it. Therefore, the thing must make micro-adjustments on the wheels to keep things balanced, or have a shifting weight...yeah...that could work...
"AAAAAT! AAAAAAAT! AAAAAAAAT! Warning! Silent scooter approaching behind you! AAAAAAT! AAAAAAAAT! AAAAAAT! Warning! Silent scooter approacing behind you!"
That may include their manufacturing facility they built, not to mention the tooling. For something like this, that's not much cash at all.
Nor ice for that matter.
See, everyone lives in California...
It is pretty damned dorky looking.
> maybe you should think about losing weight instead
Weren't you paying attention? The market for a walking substute IS fat people. Yet they build these things for supermodels.
I'll just hide behind this metal shipping container. That'll block the phaser!
> Also, are we to believe that the people of earth
> are so stupid that they wouldn't realize that
> their weaponry is worst than it was during the
> 20th Century?
It's the computer game syndrome. In reality, the slightest gust would disrupt a "magical spellcaster". A 10-foot tall, 4000-lb ogre who can lift 10 tons and swings a 200-lb sword at the caster would not "whif" for 10 points of damage, sorry.
That that idiocy is making it into the movies is kind of sad.
Of course, it's possible materials science has produced such indestructable, but light, materials for shipping containers.
So light, in fact, that they should be used as armor, too.
But that's another problem.
Presumably, this movie will be post-Voyager, so they should have a massive high-tech upgrade with the armor plating, the 26th century holo emitter, the high speed transwarp information that Voyager, all alone, picked up but couldn't capitalize on, and so on.
I don't see why the Romulans would be anything but a bunch of Taliban to the Federation.
1 was very good
2 was awesome3 was so-so
4 and 5 sucked. These are the voyages of the Star Ship Enterprise, not the voyages of the Klingon PT Boat Warbird. That damned thing changed size by a factor of 20 depending on the scene, for crying out loud.
Then the Borg come in a completely underwhelming story.
Then not much happens until Insurrection, which was a dumb story, but had a cute female guest star.
I was wondering how the hell Hollywood thought Superman III was a good idea.
I always thought it was just a leftover of the "special guest star" crap of '70's TV shows.
> * Keep it fast and not too much dialog.
Although the two best, Kahn and, ugh, shave the whales, both relied heavily on dialog, which is to say, philosophy and tactics for Kahn, and humor for Whales.
I also think it made the first, the Vger story, one of the best, but I'm evidently in the minority. I always did like the cosmic stories better than most. Who wants to see little men lift little weights?
Well, Voyager had the honor of taking out the entire Borg galactic transwarp conduit system for its last episode, so Kirk doing in the Borg for his death isn't out of the question.
> Picard was standing right there when [Kirk] died.
No, it was later on when Picard went to the bathroom after putting Kirk up on a bier.
> It's because our land lines are so fantastically cheap to use (per minute charges: zero)
An excellent point. I nations that have, or recently used to have, no-competition national PTT coercive monopolies, cell phones are the way to go.
Ironically, in 3rd world and developing countries, they are the way to go, too, because wiring up a bunch of towers is a heck of a lot cheaper than wiring up every single building.
Also, in the US, as cheap as land line phones are, cell phones are picking up steam, too. I heard a statistic somewhere (someone can correct) where something like 30% of US homes no longer even had a land line phone account anymore, relying solely on cheap cell phones. 7 cents a minute, anywhere in the US, is doing pretty well.
> I wonder how much "money" has been "donated" to
> the SETI project in this way?
Don't give the IRS any ideas. They're thuglike enough as it
I mean, they're a bunch of swell guys! Keep up the good work!
> Other species may have no interest in
> colonization. Wanting to spread your seed among
> the stars may be a purely human affair.
Although as a Scientific American article on this subject a few years ago said, the only intelligent species we have any actual data on, our own, hasn't destroyed itself, yet, and has every indication of being expansionist.
Even a civilization based on the severest combination of Ludditism, communism, and radical environmentalism would eventually spread through space.
Of course, an alien civilization might include in its analysis:
flubonium quantity in crust 0.1
mixlplitilik in atmosphere 0.1
continuous cloud cover to seal in heat 0.1
etc.
If life forms, its ability to thrive and use whatever is there (and not worry about what isn't there) is remarkable.
Last time I checked it was trivial to convert to another base.
If he's saying, well, this variable is 1/10 and that one is 1/100 and that other one is 1/20, then big deal, they're all guesses anyway.
Wasn't there a case where all the disgusting, illegal pr0n was checked out of the Library of Congress (which only Congresscreatures can do) and kept out for months at a crack?
Flip to the end of my argument, basically it turns out that consciousness is purely information-based, and a faster-than-light communication medium allows people to live in a pan-universal world that is 99% virtual.
Or, none of you exist and I'm God on some kind of bizarre, memory-wiped (to prevent boredom) existance, although if that were the case, I think I'd be some kind of billionaire lesbian supermodel.
Part of the problem is that, in my opinion, the likely values for the following are:
fl = the fraction of those planets where life develops = 1.0
fi = the fraction of planets with life where intelligence develops = 1.0
fc = the fraction of those planets that achieve technology which releases detectable signals into space = 1.0
L = the lifetime of such communicative civilizations = more or less infinity
This indicates a huge number of civilizations, yet we detect none.
So...Fermii Paradox, not only why haven't we detected any, but why aren't they omnipresend and we were born into a universe-wide civilzation?
Catastrophic events (nuclear war, or physics problems that would lead to destruction of the planet, runaway nanotech, too-easy-to-craft viruses, etc.) may destroy some, maybe even the vast majority. However, some must have made it through, if in no other instance, then there must be some planets with one smallish continent that had dictatorship on it that made it to the stars (depressing, but true.)
So that's out, so what's left? I've rejected it being "rare", i.e. we are the first.
The only solution is a variation of "dying out". That is to say, the "radio band use" window of a civilization is rather small, and then they move on to something better (which is to say, much faster than light.)
So, given that, an entrepeneurial physicist should look beyond radio waves for something else in physics. There may very well be vast galactic, if not universal, "cable channels" we can tap into. We only need figure it out.
The other possibility -- this is a bizarre virtual reality of some sort, nature unknown, purpose unknown, surrounding metareality unknown.