No, it's genius! Let's assume two situations: a) they raise the money. it's not like they just donate it to UPN, the main fund raiser signs on as an executive producer, and now has gone from his fast food, parents basement lifestyle to the big leagues, pulling in tons of money in income each year.
b) they don't raise enough. the main fund raiser sends an email saying "sorry guys, we only raised $20k and UPN said no. Guess we just didn't win this time" while pocketing however much the fans donated and purchasing a nice villa in a Central American country.
This guy is going to get rich off of these fans; this is scamming at it's worst (or best, depending on your viewpoint). To quote the post linked to, "never underestimate the power of a trekkie."
It does seem to have some functionality though. Let's say for example, this holiday I received a Thing(tm) as a present. I could take a picture or two of the Thing, and it may be easier to figure out what the it is.
Of course, for some reason I think it would be difficult to make Visual Google function that well... the only way I would get results for my Thing would be if someone already knew what it was, and defined it for the search engine.
Oh my god, wrong again! Obviously, Picard would find a time portal to send Data through, where he could then cannabalize his body to build a tachyon emitter that would ionize the asteroid, and send it through a newly discovered wormhole to the delta quadrant.
That is, assuming Count Bakula doesn't get there first, prematurely starting a klingon-earth war.
Pfft. Before that can ever happen, I think we all know that the Stargate team would be able to send the asteroid into hyperspace for just a few seconds, coming out on the other side of the planet (and thus missing it).
1) build spaceship 2) build mars habitat (hurry not much time left) 3)... 4) profit!
My uncle is really pissed. He made some thought experiment (32 questions) for "if the world was no longer habitable" and the date he picked was just a few years off. http://32q.com/
If only he had picked the right date, he probably could've started his own cult or something. Then he could use their power to build a space ark and profit, as noted by the guidelines above. Well, back to the drawing board.
hmm, well according to all the articles about it, 2004 MN4 is 440m (or 1300ft) in diameter. But, maybe it grew in size? That or, you mistook 1300ft for 1300m.
Well, John Young (from a previous story about the risks of being a single planet species) is going to have a field day with this. http://space.balettie.com/Young.html
Guess it's time to update those "how likely we are to die" stats.
Although maybe not, considering this isn't of the 1km and above weight class.
Although Tesla can be creepy sometimes. When he was trying to do something similar with his tower he said, "In this system that I have invented," Tesla explained, "it is necessary for the machine to get a grip of the earth, otherwise it cannot shake the earth. It has to have a grip... so that the whole of this globe can quiver."
I hope they're planning on making sure those access points are gripping the Earth hard enough.
There's much talk about the security and reliability of current electronic voting machines. What do you think needs to be done about it (if anything), and can it be done without being elected by them in the first place?
I think much of the "Not supported on OS X" talk is related to companies not wanting to pay for a cross-platform support staff.
Sprint does this. With their cell service you can get PCS Vision. You're not supposed to use it to go online with your computer (official response is that it's an unofficial feature), but you can. On top of that, it's not supposed to work for Mac, but it does. There's even a PCS Vision modem script built into OS X that ends all the hassle.
The ever ellusive, unsupported feature within an unsupported feature! I imagine companies save some money by just saying "not supported" instead of training a Mac Support team (or rather, hiring one), but I'd be surprised to learn exactly what works on a Mac that isn't supposed to. Makes you wonder...
Everybody knows that if you send some genetically engineered organism into the vastness of space, it will only return far more advanced - and destroy us for sending it's ancestors to a dark and empty prison.
To imagine these hard-up saps actually trying to pull off a frickin SUMMER CAMP to ATTRACT some TEENAGE GIRLS into the sorry world of the code monkey, why that's the most cock-eyed, half baked plan I ever heard of!
Not quite, the only flaw I can detect here is that of age... a summer camp to attract some 18-22 year old girls into the sorry world of the code monkey would be, in fact, the most brilliant plan I have ever heard of.
1) Ferret (awesome!!!) 2) Ass (already taken by political party) 3) Godzilla (possible copyright issues) 4) Leviathon or Cthulhu (too abstract) 5) Sheep (too suggestive)
Good thing the whole future of "speech recognition" didn't pan out. Oh those silly Star Trek episodes, everyone can hear when Picard announces his secret password to everyone!
Unfortunately it will be the only computer capable of playing Doom III (outside of the Japanese Earth Simulator... which Doom III was originally designed for).
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I would agree with you, but unfortunately the point described in your post has already been patented as a business concept.
Also, I own a copyright on the term "Please end." Please end(c) your use of this phrase immediately.
Also reported on the People's Daily Online. Including an interesting story about how they aren't experimenting with "space mutation breeding".
Aww, and I was so looking forward to the catchphrases that would've spawned.
From the article:
"'It's a selfish strategy initiated by females [in which] queens transmit 100 percent of their genome,' Fournier said."
Wow, sounds like Fournier is waging his own battle of the sexes. Those selfish females, they want to clone themselves rather than have sex with me!
Wait, OS X is moving to the Playstation pla$*%&%NO CARRIER$^^%#$
No, it's genius! Let's assume two situations:
a) they raise the money. it's not like they just donate it to UPN, the main fund raiser signs on as an executive producer, and now has gone from his fast food, parents basement lifestyle to the big leagues, pulling in tons of money in income each year.
b) they don't raise enough. the main fund raiser sends an email saying "sorry guys, we only raised $20k and UPN said no. Guess we just didn't win this time" while pocketing however much the fans donated and purchasing a nice villa in a Central American country.
This guy is going to get rich off of these fans; this is scamming at it's worst (or best, depending on your viewpoint). To quote the post linked to, "never underestimate the power of a trekkie."
It does seem to have some functionality though. Let's say for example, this holiday I received a Thing(tm) as a present. I could take a picture or two of the Thing, and it may be easier to figure out what the it is.
Of course, for some reason I think it would be difficult to make Visual Google function that well... the only way I would get results for my Thing would be if someone already knew what it was, and defined it for the search engine.
Oh my god, wrong again! Obviously, Picard would find a time portal to send Data through, where he could then cannabalize his body to build a tachyon emitter that would ionize the asteroid, and send it through a newly discovered wormhole to the delta quadrant.
That is, assuming Count Bakula doesn't get there first, prematurely starting a klingon-earth war.
Pfft. Before that can ever happen, I think we all know that the Stargate team would be able to send the asteroid into hyperspace for just a few seconds, coming out on the other side of the planet (and thus missing it).
1) build spaceship ...
2) build mars habitat (hurry not much time left)
3)
4) profit!
My uncle is really pissed. He made some thought experiment (32 questions) for "if the world was no longer habitable" and the date he picked was just a few years off.
http://32q.com/
If only he had picked the right date, he probably could've started his own cult or something. Then he could use their power to build a space ark and profit, as noted by the guidelines above. Well, back to the drawing board.
hmm, well according to all the articles about it, 2004 MN4 is 440m (or 1300ft) in diameter. But, maybe it grew in size? That or, you mistook 1300ft for 1300m.
Well, John Young (from a previous story about the risks of being a single planet species) is going to have a field day with this.
http://space.balettie.com/Young.html
Guess it's time to update those "how likely we are to die" stats.
Although maybe not, considering this isn't of the 1km and above weight class.
All this talk about large scale wireless reminds me of Tesla and some of his crazy ideas http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_todre.html.
Although Tesla can be creepy sometimes. When he was trying to do something similar with his tower he said, "In this system that I have invented," Tesla explained, "it is necessary for the machine to get a grip of the earth, otherwise it cannot shake the earth. It has to have a grip... so that the whole of this globe can quiver."
I hope they're planning on making sure those access points are gripping the Earth hard enough.
There's much talk about the security and reliability of current electronic voting machines. What do you think needs to be done about it (if anything), and can it be done without being elected by them in the first place?
Bah, the marriage of live actors with VR sets becomes the new marketing gimmick, not the new paradigm.
Here's a much more detailed O'Reilly article (err... an O'Reilly link to other articles) concerning Airport Express compatibility.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5024
Follow this link for the full analysis.
I think much of the "Not supported on OS X" talk is related to companies not wanting to pay for a cross-platform support staff.
Sprint does this. With their cell service you can get PCS Vision. You're not supposed to use it to go online with your computer (official response is that it's an unofficial feature), but you can. On top of that, it's not supposed to work for Mac, but it does. There's even a PCS Vision modem script built into OS X that ends all the hassle.
The ever ellusive, unsupported feature within an unsupported feature! I imagine companies save some money by just saying "not supported" instead of training a Mac Support team (or rather, hiring one), but I'd be surprised to learn exactly what works on a Mac that isn't supposed to. Makes you wonder...
Oh what are you thinking?!
Everybody knows that if you send some genetically engineered organism into the vastness of space, it will only return far more advanced - and destroy us for sending it's ancestors to a dark and empty prison.
Duh.
To imagine these hard-up saps actually trying to pull off a frickin SUMMER CAMP to ATTRACT some TEENAGE GIRLS into the sorry world of the code monkey, why that's the most cock-eyed, half baked plan I ever heard of!
Not quite, the only flaw I can detect here is that of age... a summer camp to attract some 18-22 year old girls into the sorry world of the code monkey would be, in fact, the most brilliant plan I have ever heard of.
August 11th meeting minutes...
Discussed possible mascots for BSA.
1) Ferret (awesome!!!)
2) Ass (already taken by political party)
3) Godzilla (possible copyright issues)
4) Leviathon or Cthulhu (too abstract)
5) Sheep (too suggestive)
my love for Apple and my hatred for using technology for violence.
Oh screw it, that cluster is gonna be awesome! Forget imagining a Beowulf cluster... imagine your frame rate in Doom III!
First.
20fps.
In Doom III.
Evar!
Good thing the whole future of "speech recognition" didn't pan out. Oh those silly Star Trek episodes, everyone can hear when Picard announces his secret password to everyone!
Unfortunately it will be the only computer capable of playing Doom III (outside of the Japanese Earth Simulator... which Doom III was originally designed for).
Ah. Well, I feel a little better now. Although there is a dark part of me that wants this to be of some official military use.
"Immigration papers please. What's this? A forgery?
Quick, get the ROBOSAUR! We've got ourselves an illegal!"
Aah, my precious tax dollars at work. Thanks Air Force, keep up the good work!