Actually they have. First, the US is at war "with those responsible for the Sept. 11'th attacks" and it is at war with Iraq.
Excuse me? They helped to organize the elections in a country they're at war with?
I thought the US has won the war in Iraq a long time ago? A short time after the invasion began, actually? Right now, the US soldiers are just playing shooting target while the oil companies pillage the country. Well, that's what I heard anyway. I could be wrong and you could be right.
I've always thought that the first melting pot landing on the moon would be much more important than the first person. Mining the moon carries great potential. (I've also wondered what a mining shaft on the moon would "feel like", I mean would there also be an increase in temerature as you get closer to the core).
Oh well, back to reality: no way this plan will succeed, fundings will be cut as usual.
Ok, You start a new company that "manages" your satellite. You give it money to build, launch and operate your equipment. When it's worn out, you end the contract, and the company goes bankrupt. And voila, corporatism wins again.
Here's a position I can live with: no software patents. Period. I hope that people who advocate software patents don't know what they are talking about, or else they're pure evil. Why should an algorithm be allowed to be patentable? Allowing that would make mathematical proofs patentable as well, there's no way you can get around that.
I really don't understand why a web designer would only "support IE". Haven't they ever heard of W3C, or their standards?
Ok, Ok, I was lying. In fact, I do understand. It's called incompetence. We're all confronted with incompetence from time to time. I still haven't found a solution to that problem.
Can't we just let the dead rest in peace anymore? I loved both my C=64 and my Amiga, but they're history. This is just marketing/branding, it has nothing to do with the original products, nor it's spirit.
Be very, very, very watchful when you hear someone saying "we need to protect the children". Those people are using an argument that can be used to defend almost anything. And it makes it hard to say "No".
If your power grid can be operated online, then of course there's a threat that this can be used by malicious people. If the risk outweights the benefits, then don't put it online. Maybe they should just have read "Building Secure Linux Servers" (O'Reilly), instead of passing the patriot act (that is used for different purposes now, btw). That law isn't going to decrease the risk.
I was just thinking of doing this without actually buying the items. I mean, how long is it going to take them to figure out it's the guy laughing out loud and pointing fingers, when the cops come to take away yet another innocent shopper?
I was just thinking, what drives this evolution? Is it science-driven, or technology-driven? In other words, are there any scientific bariers left to take when reducing the size?
Didn't you know that the death of Lady Di happened just days after a prototype managed to escape, and that the test target at the top-secret military base was code-named Lady Die? Coincidence? I think NOT! Luckily, since then the army has discovered that fences don't work on flying robots. Also, in order to prevent accidents even if one of them gets loose, they changed the name of the test doll from Lady Die to Mister Chirac, claiming that they have never heard such a silly name in real life. So we should be safe now.
Last time I stepped on a bus, I noticed a "Biodiesel only" sign above the fuel cap. I have no idea how long I've been traveling with biodiesel without noticing. It didn't have a smell or a nasty smoke plume either. Any way, it can not be called 'experimental', since a Diesel engine was meant to burn vegetable oil from day one. It's only later that the petrolium industry saw it as a great way to get rid of their low-quality "diesel" fuels.
I have just read the robotic competition faq yesterday, and I remember a similar competition there.. I just found it back at http://avdil.gtri.gatech.edu/AUVS/IARCLaunchPoint. html. I was just looking for a fun competition so that I have some fixed requirements for building a robot myself, but it's either too advanced or too simple. If anyone knows of a fun competition in Europe, please let me know.
"Fully autonomous ingress of 3km to an urban area, locate a particular structure from among many, identify all of the true openings in the correct structure, fly in or send in a sensor that can find one of three targets and relay video or still photographs back 3km to the origin in under 15 minutes."
It looks similar, although the prize money is only $50k, and it's for military use.
Even without all this research, you don't have to be extremely brilliant to realize this is a scam. There isn't a formal definition for A.I., so and even less so for "true A.I.". Of course, in science fiction "true A.I." means digital consciousness (HAL, Data,...), and I'll cut off my penis with a rusty bread-knife if that's the case. He just has invented his own definition for the term, and coincidentally it happens to match the product he has developed.
At first I didn't even intend to read the article, but after making a bold statement like this one I clicked the link just to be sure;-). It starts with "GTX Global Corporation (GTXC) (OTC: GTXC.PK - News), a leading provider of innovative IP multimedia technologies that enable profitable IP communications...". Blah blah blah. I know enough. In the best case scenario, this is just an IRC bot and voice recognition/TTS slammed together.
No way he will do that, especially not when there is the "Give Mr2Cents A New Nick Fund". After all those years posting on/., I'm sure you're all bored of this one, and would rather see a Mr100MillionDollarsAnd2cents.
Thanks, I have learned something today (karma well spent, I'd say:-P)
I knew that the GNU utils were running on.*BSD, but now I realize they are but one of the alternatives. I was a bit misguided, I admit. I really should make the time/diskspace to install some.*BSD's and Darwin on a spare system, but "make time" keeps returning an error message;-).
Hmmm.. I thought that the GNU part in GNU/Linux referred to the GNU tools and the Linux kernel, not to the GPL'ed kernel. But it's true, I never heared RMS make the same claims for.*BSD systems, although they also use the GNU tools unless I'm terribly mistaken.
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Actually they have. First, the US is at war "with those responsible for the Sept. 11'th attacks" and it is at war with Iraq.
Excuse me? They helped to organize the elections in a country they're at war with?
I thought the US has won the war in Iraq a long time ago? A short time after the invasion began, actually? Right now, the US soldiers are just playing shooting target while the oil companies pillage the country. Well, that's what I heard anyway. I could be wrong and you could be right.
I've always thought that the first melting pot landing on the moon would be much more important than the first person. Mining the moon carries great potential. (I've also wondered what a mining shaft on the moon would "feel like", I mean would there also be an increase in temerature as you get closer to the core).
Oh well, back to reality: no way this plan will succeed, fundings will be cut as usual.
Ok, You start a new company that "manages" your satellite. You give it money to build, launch and operate your equipment. When it's worn out, you end the contract, and the company goes bankrupt. And voila, corporatism wins again.
Here's a position I can live with: no software patents. Period. I hope that people who advocate software patents don't know what they are talking about, or else they're pure evil. Why should an algorithm be allowed to be patentable? Allowing that would make mathematical proofs patentable as well, there's no way you can get around that.
I really don't understand why a web designer would only "support IE". Haven't they ever heard of W3C, or their standards?
Ok, Ok, I was lying. In fact, I do understand. It's called incompetence. We're all confronted with incompetence from time to time. I still haven't found a solution to that problem.
Can't we just let the dead rest in peace anymore? I loved both my C=64 and my Amiga, but they're history. This is just marketing/branding, it has nothing to do with the original products, nor it's spirit.
Rip the head of the cute Barbie doll, and plug it into your PC.
It has excellent Debian Sid support, I've heard.
Be very, very, very watchful when you hear someone saying "we need to protect the children". Those people are using an argument that can be used to defend almost anything. And it makes it hard to say "No".
I hope you do better then I did, I used a cd-writer and an industrial laser, but it didn't work out well:* Runs to toaster, inserts bread slices, runs back to desktop *Ok, I can burn custom tux images on my bread, but next time I wouldn't use a single speed writer anymore.
Everybody knows that in that context, "f" means "fuck", so why not just say it?
Tht mn jst svd me 4B on my mntly dnl quot. He shd be an ex to all of us!
We just want to print one page...
If your power grid can be operated online, then of course there's a threat that this can be used by malicious people. If the risk outweights the benefits, then don't put it online. Maybe they should just have read "Building Secure Linux Servers" (O'Reilly), instead of passing the patriot act (that is used for different purposes now, btw). That law isn't going to decrease the risk.
Sounds more like a sunstroke to me.
April 1st is going to be so much fun this year...
I was just thinking of doing this without actually buying the items. I mean, how long is it going to take them to figure out it's the guy laughing out loud and pointing fingers, when the cops come to take away yet another innocent shopper?
I was just thinking, what drives this evolution? Is it science-driven, or technology-driven? In other words, are there any scientific bariers left to take when reducing the size?
Didn't you know that the death of Lady Di happened just days after a prototype managed to escape, and that the test target at the top-secret military base was code-named Lady Die? Coincidence? I think NOT! Luckily, since then the army has discovered that fences don't work on flying robots. Also, in order to prevent accidents even if one of them gets loose, they changed the name of the test doll from Lady Die to Mister Chirac, claiming that they have never heard such a silly name in real life. So we should be safe now.
Last time I stepped on a bus, I noticed a "Biodiesel only" sign above the fuel cap. I have no idea how long I've been traveling with biodiesel without noticing. It didn't have a smell or a nasty smoke plume either. Any way, it can not be called 'experimental', since a Diesel engine was meant to burn vegetable oil from day one. It's only later that the petrolium industry saw it as a great way to get rid of their low-quality "diesel" fuels.
I have just read the robotic competition faq yesterday, and I remember a similar competition there.. I just found it back at http://avdil.gtri.gatech.edu/AUVS/IARCLaunchPoint. html. I was just looking for a fun competition so that I have some fixed requirements for building a robot myself, but it's either too advanced or too simple. If anyone knows of a fun competition in Europe, please let me know.
"Fully autonomous ingress of 3km to an urban area, locate a particular structure from among many, identify all of the true openings in the correct structure, fly in or send in a sensor that can find one of three targets and relay video or still photographs back 3km to the origin in under 15 minutes."
It looks similar, although the prize money is only $50k, and it's for military use.
Even without all this research, you don't have to be extremely brilliant to realize this is a scam. There isn't a formal definition for A.I., so and even less so for "true A.I.". Of course, in science fiction "true A.I." means digital consciousness (HAL, Data, ...), and I'll cut off my penis with a rusty bread-knife if that's the case. He just has invented his own definition for the term, and coincidentally it happens to match the product he has developed.
;-). It starts with "GTX Global Corporation (GTXC) (OTC: GTXC.PK - News), a leading provider of innovative IP multimedia technologies that enable profitable IP communications...". Blah blah blah. I know enough. In the best case scenario, this is just an IRC bot and voice recognition/TTS slammed together.
At first I didn't even intend to read the article, but after making a bold statement like this one I clicked the link just to be sure
Pirana's are honest creatures. They never have claimed they just want to give you a massage.
No way he will do that, especially not when there is the "Give Mr2Cents A New Nick Fund". After all those years posting on /., I'm sure you're all bored of this one, and would rather see a Mr100MillionDollarsAnd2cents.
Thanks, I just salvaged a 40gig hdd, I'll give OpenBSD a try over the weekend..
(btw, Nice site you have.)
Thanks, I have learned something today (karma well spent, I'd say :-P)
.*BSD, but now I realize they are but one of the alternatives. I was a bit misguided, I admit. I really should make the time/diskspace to install some .*BSD's and Darwin on a spare system, but "make time" keeps returning an error message ;-).
I knew that the GNU utils were running on
Hmmm.. I thought that the GNU part in GNU/Linux referred to the GNU tools and the Linux kernel, not to the GPL'ed kernel. But it's true, I never heared RMS make the same claims for .*BSD systems, although they also use the GNU tools unless I'm terribly mistaken.