The U.S. is the only country in the history of the world to have been in the situation of knowing it could conquer the rest of the world and yet not do it.
Hey dudes, Vietnam kicked our ass! Imagine how hard it would be to occupy a regular, non-peasant, industialised country (other than France, of course).
nice idea, but most of the newer powerbooks won't run with the clamshell closed, because they need to convect cool through the keyboard. they can sleep ok with the top down though.
In Larry Niven's The Flight of The Horse, a scientist tries to feed the world by growing huge ostriches. unfortunately the ostriches were neotenic monsters and grew up into giant rocs. There was another story in the same book about the president's science advisor being regressed into homo habilis.
i use Photoshop every day. often i use it all day. I've been using it since version 1.0, and since version 3.0 i can't remember it crashing. If you want a MacOS program that crashes sometimes, try IE or Dreamweaver. But Photoshop doesn't crash.
However, i'm sure there are other appealing features of the software that you like.
Do you remember how it used to be in the UK? Three months wait to have a new phone line? Assholes in public services who knew they couldn't be sacked however asshole-like they were? The Austin Allegro.
Thatcher was an evil bitch, and the privatisations did lead to CORRUPTION and TRAIN CRASHES and L!VE TV but it also made the UK a braver country. Sure, some of the more loony ideas haven't worked. But arguing that government ownership is therefore better is just silly.
The one thing that we might agree on is how Thatcher destroyed the UK's manufacturing base and pretty much wiped out engineering there. I think she thought everyone was going to get jobs as lawyers and stockbrokers or something. I guess Mecanno was too old school to survive that.
From what i can understand, Intel has designed the P4 to be able to run at HIGH CLOCK SPEEDS regardless of the actual performance improvement. They astutely see consumers going for an easy metric.
So, in the same spirit, i have my offering for cpu design: a simple divider on the clock input. This would only take two transistors and yet the processor would double in clock speed! The 3GHz chip is here already. Now, how do i patent the idea?
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Good post.
Although it's anathema to say it, ecoterrorism is pretty much the preserve of the . Those kids trashing experimental GM crops can sanctimoniously do that because they already have a reliable food source. It's selfish, and worse, it's based on voodoo science.
We don't need computer's to produce Van Gogh paintings we had Van Gogh to do that, and the changes in the way we look at artwork are already made. This is at best a homage to Van Gogh, but I really don't see the point. If the algorithm has to learn the style of a painter then it is not producing anything new. Which is the whole point of art. Right?
Seeing this discussion on slashdot is genuinely heartwarming. i newgrouped alt.art.illustration back in 97 or so hoping that there would be this kind of discussion. instead there was just lots of hopeless pr0n. not even good stuff. the hopelessly boring stuff.
It is my opinion that the position of CG in relation to art is similar to the position of photography before Edward Stieglitz'Photo-Secession. Before then photography was seen as a purely technical pursuit devoid of artistic merit.
Whether there will be a CG-Secession is debatable. The postmodernist emphasis on mediated realities means that art is generally trying to catch up with CG rather than the other way round - look at Disneyland. Contrast and compare with the largely lacklustreBitstreams exhibition at the Whitney. Mind you, the Whitney did have dozens of cool plasma displays.
navigating the asteroid belt would require a small, nimble spacecraft capable of shooting the really big asteroids into two smaller ones, and so on, until the little tiny asteroids just explode.
beware of the flying saucer guy. use the hyperdrive. ooh, bad luck, one more go!
NATO is - or was - about a common commitment to fighting an external threat, ie: the Russians. i don't think it was conceived as a way of making Germany play nice and refrain from plunging the continent into protracted warfare.
one thing i don't understand about this thing is what happens when laws explicitly clash with each other. for example (and please bear in mind that my main source of information is listening to people in bars), there is a law in Japan that forbids pubic hair in pornography. regardless of what else goes on in their porn, pubic hair is a no-no. meanwhile in Germany, shaved-off pubic hair is illegal on the grounds that it is immoral or paedophilia-ish or something.
this means that any pornography that shows naked women is illegal in either Germany or Japan.
so what does this mean? would they go to war over such laws? and what would future historians call that war?
I never have understood why you can't be nationalistic and proud of your country without being an isolationist.
Well, nationalists often start wars, and wars tend to preclude being isolationist, on account of the exchange of all the bombs and explosions and the invading armies and the tanks and so on and so forth.
The EU was formed to counter the US economically. That's it.
The EU, formerly the EC, formerly the EEC, formerly the European Coal & Steel Community, has always been about preventing another war in europe by economically binding germany to everyone else without quite so much of the jackboots and the helmets and the stuka dive bombers as previous attempts.
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Hey dudes, Vietnam kicked our ass! Imagine how hard it would be to occupy a regular, non-peasant, industialised country (other than France, of course).
if they had fallen in Europe they'd be car-sized.
nice idea, but most of the newer powerbooks won't run with the clamshell closed, because they need to convect cool through the keyboard. they can sleep ok with the top down though.
moral: the egg came before the chicken.
Like, don't you have Google or something?.
i use Photoshop every day. often i use it all day. I've been using it since version 1.0, and since version 3.0 i can't remember it crashing. If you want a MacOS program that crashes sometimes, try IE or Dreamweaver. But Photoshop doesn't crash.
However, i'm sure there are other appealing features of the software that you like.
Thatcher was an evil bitch, and the privatisations did lead to CORRUPTION and TRAIN CRASHES and L!VE TV but it also made the UK a braver country. Sure, some of the more loony ideas haven't worked. But arguing that government ownership is therefore better is just silly.
The one thing that we might agree on is how Thatcher destroyed the UK's manufacturing base and pretty much wiped out engineering there. I think she thought everyone was going to get jobs as lawyers and stockbrokers or something. I guess Mecanno was too old school to survive that.
Bah. The patent office say it's already been done.
So, in the same spirit, i have my offering for cpu design: a simple divider on the clock input. This would only take two transistors and yet the processor would double in clock speed! The 3GHz chip is here already . Now, how do i patent the idea?
yes - this is very meaningless.
Although it's anathema to say it, ecoterrorism is pretty much the preserve of the . Those kids trashing experimental GM crops can sanctimoniously do that because they already have a reliable food source. It's selfish, and worse, it's based on voodoo science.
So logically, it follows that eating fireflies will give you an erection. Especially if you are a guy.
Any volunteers for gathering hard data?
huh, if teflon is so non-stick how do they get it to stick to the pan?
Does anyone else see the sponsorship potential?
We don't need computer's to produce Van Gogh paintings we had Van Gogh to do that, and the changes in the way we look at artwork are already made. This is at best a homage to Van Gogh, but I really don't see the point. If the algorithm has to learn the style of a painter then it is not producing anything new. Which is the whole point of art. Right?
a/ux was never really respected. it was pretty much apple's xenix.
what i meant was that back in the day geeks would see me working away on a mac 512k and go on about how the mac was a toy. they hated it.
now macs are geek buzzword heaven.
Would anyone have expected, back in 1985, that Apple would now be selling a RISC-powered *nix-based computer?
It is my opinion that the position of CG in relation to art is similar to the position of photography before Edward Stieglitz' Photo-Secession. Before then photography was seen as a purely technical pursuit devoid of artistic merit.
Whether there will be a CG-Secession is debatable. The postmodernist emphasis on mediated realities means that art is generally trying to catch up with CG rather than the other way round - look at Disneyland. Contrast and compare with the largely lacklustre Bitstreams exhibition at the Whitney. Mind you, the Whitney did have dozens of cool plasma displays.
beware of the flying saucer guy . use the hyperdrive. ooh, bad luck, one more go!
- quake III just has some teenagers blabbing on about their "kewl skins"
i guess quake IV will be populated by old men with hair growing out of their noses.time for another revolution.
Anyone else find it vaguely unsettling that the IEEE Computer Society can't get it's graphics to line up properly?
NATO is - or was - about a common commitment to fighting an external threat, ie: the Russians. i don't think it was conceived as a way of making Germany play nice and refrain from plunging the continent into protracted warfare.
this means that any pornography that shows naked women is illegal in either Germany or Japan.
so what does this mean? would they go to war over such laws? and what would future historians call that war?
Well, nationalists often start wars, and wars tend to preclude being isolationist, on account of the exchange of all the bombs and explosions and the invading armies and the tanks and so on and so forth.
The EU was formed to counter the US economically. That's it.
The EU, formerly the EC, formerly the EEC, formerly the European Coal & Steel Community, has always been about preventing another war in europe by economically binding germany to everyone else without quite so much of the jackboots and the helmets and the stuka dive bombers as previous attempts.