It's always temporary, that's the problem. Once the serotonin-blocking psychedelics wear off and get absorbed, serotonin not only rebounds but plummets temporarily (hence the crash after a trip). It's actually dangerous for depressive people to take psychedelics because any short-term benefits of the experience not only disappear but are worsened by the missing serotonin.
It really depends on the machine's perception. Logically it could see us as an unstoppable virus and try to wipe us out or limit our growth (Terminator), it could see us as a threat to itself and machine-kind and try to wipe us out (Terminator), it could perceive us as dangerous to the rest of the planet, or it could see us with reverence since we were the creators (Star Trek - VGER). This scenario has been postulated in countless sci-fi comics and books over the years and ultimately the end result comes down to how much control we have over it.
Yeah that's decent, I've got the entire Robots series from Asimov as well as his Foundation series. One of the Robots books details a supercomputer that seems to be malfunctioning but is actually working perfectly in it's own terms.
I think if a computer was smarter than all of us, it'd become godlike in it's watch over humanity. It would stop any of our research related to longevity, improving old age life, curing disease, etc. These are all nature's ways of making sure we don't fill this planet to the brim and live miserably as a result.
They are trumpeting the 6600GT for exceptional value given its speed and cost. It's really a bargain compared to other 3d cards on the market. Teamed up with SLI, you have a nice box for less money than, say, a pair of 6800's or a pair of 7800's. Personally, I bought the Gigabyte dual-chips-on-a-card, the single board SLI card called the 3D1-XL @ http://gigabyte-usa.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV-3 D1-XL.htm. The one I got is the non-gt version, the gt version is faster and of course costs more. Newegg has them if you want to get a closer look. All I can say is, SLI rocks and so does SLI 8xAA and SLI 16xAA.
"...before Bright received a Sept. 14 letter from Lester Freundlich, a senior associate counsel at New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority..."
The real irony here is that Lester's last name, translated literally in German, means Friend-like, or less literally, friendly. I guess he really did get a friendly ceast-and-desist.
Judging by your alternative English spellings, I'm guessing you're in England, and this kind of beauracracy doesn't surprise me. While the corporate world is at best internally disjointed and constantly miscommunicating, nobody does it like the Brits. Brazil has a few fine scenes of a dystopian future where that kind of red tape invades every aspect of your personal life.
My guess was that since the T800 was a hacked and repurposed model, it would have data files on the T1000 but not *complete* data files (i.e. what the resistance could learn about the T1000 they would program in). Therefore it wouldn't know the best way to defeat the T1000. Practically every device has an achilles heel that the engineers are aware of, but it would take extensive reverse engineering to discover this. My understanding was that the T1000 was a *very* new and almost beta model of the Terminator.
Wow this was way nerdier than usual but I've always found the first two movies interesting.
I agree. There were other 'failing terminator' shots that were cut from the movie that would have made it more interesting. One where he grabbed a rail and his arm automatically took on the stripes and texture of the rail, a few more like that. It's been awhile since I watched the dvd but that's about all I remember of it.
Sometimes scenes are cut to adjust the 'feel' of a movie, to keep up pacing, or to just cut time out of the film. A few newer movies I've totally agreed on what was cut, but some older films circa mid-to-late 90's really could have used the extras.
Actually it wasn't an attempted troll, it was more half-assed flamebaiting (which worked when you posted) and kinda how I feel about the space program overall. The mods are just resting today, when they wake up they'll be sure to mod me into oblivion, making your post look weird.:)
If you see a ton of modules with your new 2.6.x kernel, the simplest solution is to compile a monolithic kernel with the modules you need built in. That way lsmod returns nothing.
And what have all these wonderful shuttle missions brought the general public?
Tang. Billions of dollars of research and we get Tang and a pressurized pen that can write upside down. Yay.
The big winners here are private and government contractors that conduct zero gravity research for extended periods of time via Shuttle flights and the ISS. The average taxpayer gains next to nothing and is poorly informed regarding the details of each mission. For awhile in the 80's and 90's, Shuttle missions were so numerous they were barely a blip on the media's radar, now it's a big event due to recent disasters.
I do, however, applaud the bravery of our astronauts. You know the ship you're trusting your life with is older than your children, yet you still get on board and do your job. You know at any point during the mission anything can fail catastrophically leaving you stranded or dead.
Personally I enjoy the concept of exploring space but I fail to see the point of all these Shuttle missions. I think they're a huge waste of money and time. Ok, so it takes practice to get familiar with the outer space environment. Great. Let's go to the moon or Mars already. If it's costing a few billion for each Shuttle launch, why not just hoard that money for a few years and blow it all on one big mission to Mars? The robots have shown us that Mars isn't really as harsh as we expected.
This is news to me. Since when can you complete a call with Sprint service?
Seriously, I live in Dallas which has radio towers for carriers everywhere, and I dumped Sprint about 3 years ago when their quality went straight down. AT&T is good so far but since they've merged with Cingular I get spotty calls...full meter sometimes and the call drops.
I have the latest Quicktime installed and every codec I can think of, and on Windows, I STILL can't watch h.264. It's not really 'there' yet so don't sing it's praises. I even tried it with the Windows version of Mplayer thinking something magical would happen but nope...no dice.
There's a gigantic difference between how each display actually 'displays' an image.
In a CRT, Cathode Ray Tube, you have a phosphorescent screen that gets lit up by a ray gun. The gun is in the back of the monitor and fires forward, one line at a time (which is why larger monitors are generally much deeper in size, the gun has to be further back to paint the whole screen). Refresh rate is basically how fast this ray gun can draw lines across your screen in sequential order. Better refresh rates (75hz and up) look more solid and less flickery and are therefore easier on your eyes.
Now, in an LCD, you have layers of crystals which act as gates between colored layers of plastic. The 'dead pixel' syndrom happens when every layer of this grid gets locked to 'on' or 'off' in one point. The LCD has a few backlights and a diffusion layer to scatter the light so it shines evenly on the display. It's when all the gates on every layer are open that you get a white pixel (i.e. you're seeing the backlight directly) and when they're all off you see a black pixel (no light is coming through any layer).
These are extremely simplistic definitions but it should give you some idea of the difference. A much more interesting explanation is given here: howstuffworks/lcd.
Actually FIOS is so fast you can't even test it. Nobody has enough bandwidth (or is willing to allocate it to your download) to top it out. 3 years ago I had an uncapped wireless link to a great company called Airband (who is now oversold and sucks) and it was the same way..no matter how many files I downloaded from however many sites simultaneously, I couldn't hit the bandwidth ceiling.
Now, maybe trying to play Doom3 over a remote X session on 2 of these machines would max it out, but then you have issues with lopsided bandwidth.
One thing that always cracks me up is british cursing. Asshole sounds meaner than arse-hole, and bugger off sounds a whole lot nicer than fuck off. If someone told me to bugger off I'd just laugh.
That's pretty much the reason I started remembering VI commands to begin with. Each unix-ish machine I log in on has it by default 90% of the time and I can get to work right away.
LOL! You call that thing hot? You have _got_ to be shitting me. The front grill looks like a Transformer with a big stupid grin on it's face. I totally expect it to light up when it's talking. "Megatron is over that ridge what do we do?!"
It's a way different tab completion than *nix has, and doesn't get the job done very well. It's limited to completing filenames of files/folders in the location you're in, It doesn't seem to let you tab complete binary executable names stored anywhere on the system like *nix does.
Also the bash-like command history is useful sometimes, up arrow to page through them just like *nix. I think Windows is moving more in the *nix direction with the shell features in Vista, which is ironic.
You bring up a very good point, and I have to admit that at times I've been guilty of putting goofy tags at the end of backup conf file names as well.
I think I'm going to create a full backup of my/etc/ directory in/conf/backups or/conf/defaults from now on to avoid confusion. Then if I need an older, presumably working Apache conf file I'll just head for that folder and there it is. Maybe make it readonly just to be on the safe side.
I call BS on this one, just another Windows apologist claiming the impossible, that reboots aren't necessary.
Just yesterday, the auto update wanted to grab an update to the Microsoft Malware removal tool. Guess what it wanted to do after it updated? You guessed it, it begged for a reboot.
Then today, I see the little alert icon again. Cool, a new update, I'll install you little buddy. Post install, another damn reboot. I really hope Vista improves on this because I'm forced to use Windows to play Battlefield 2 and do a few other tasks.
I hate it when anyone changes a conf file and doesn't move it somewhere first, at the end of the day you're grabbing source files and unpacking them just for a default config file.
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It's always temporary, that's the problem. Once the serotonin-blocking psychedelics wear off and get absorbed, serotonin not only rebounds but plummets temporarily (hence the crash after a trip). It's actually dangerous for depressive people to take psychedelics because any short-term benefits of the experience not only disappear but are worsened by the missing serotonin.
It really depends on the machine's perception. Logically it could see us as an unstoppable virus and try to wipe us out or limit our growth (Terminator), it could see us as a threat to itself and machine-kind and try to wipe us out (Terminator), it could perceive us as dangerous to the rest of the planet, or it could see us with reverence since we were the creators (Star Trek - VGER). This scenario has been postulated in countless sci-fi comics and books over the years and ultimately the end result comes down to how much control we have over it.
Yeah that's decent, I've got the entire Robots series from Asimov as well as his Foundation series. One of the Robots books details a supercomputer that seems to be malfunctioning but is actually working perfectly in it's own terms.
I think if a computer was smarter than all of us, it'd become godlike in it's watch over humanity. It would stop any of our research related to longevity, improving old age life, curing disease, etc. These are all nature's ways of making sure we don't fill this planet to the brim and live miserably as a result.
They are trumpeting the 6600GT for exceptional value given its speed and cost. It's really a bargain compared to other 3d cards on the market. Teamed up with SLI, you have a nice box for less money than, say, a pair of 6800's or a pair of 7800's. Personally, I bought the Gigabyte dual-chips-on-a-card, the single board SLI card called the 3D1-XL @ http://gigabyte-usa.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV-3 D1-XL.htm. The one I got is the non-gt version, the gt version is faster and of course costs more. Newegg has them if you want to get a closer look. All I can say is, SLI rocks and so does SLI 8xAA and SLI 16xAA.
"...before Bright received a Sept. 14 letter from Lester Freundlich, a senior associate counsel at New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority..."
The real irony here is that Lester's last name, translated literally in German, means Friend-like, or less literally, friendly. I guess he really did get a friendly ceast-and-desist.
Judging by your alternative English spellings, I'm guessing you're in England, and this kind of beauracracy doesn't surprise me. While the corporate world is at best internally disjointed and constantly miscommunicating, nobody does it like the Brits. Brazil has a few fine scenes of a dystopian future where that kind of red tape invades every aspect of your personal life.
My guess was that since the T800 was a hacked and repurposed model, it would have data files on the T1000 but not *complete* data files (i.e. what the resistance could learn about the T1000 they would program in). Therefore it wouldn't know the best way to defeat the T1000. Practically every device has an achilles heel that the engineers are aware of, but it would take extensive reverse engineering to discover this. My understanding was that the T1000 was a *very* new and almost beta model of the Terminator.
Wow this was way nerdier than usual but I've always found the first two movies interesting.
I agree. There were other 'failing terminator' shots that were cut from the movie that would have made it more interesting. One where he grabbed a rail and his arm automatically took on the stripes and texture of the rail, a few more like that. It's been awhile since I watched the dvd but that's about all I remember of it.
Sometimes scenes are cut to adjust the 'feel' of a movie, to keep up pacing, or to just cut time out of the film. A few newer movies I've totally agreed on what was cut, but some older films circa mid-to-late 90's really could have used the extras.
Actually it wasn't an attempted troll, it was more half-assed flamebaiting (which worked when you posted) and kinda how I feel about the space program overall. The mods are just resting today, when they wake up they'll be sure to mod me into oblivion, making your post look weird. :)
Not to nitpick, but assuming one is intelligent, wouldn't one's designs be inherently intelligent?
*yes, I get the intelligent design reference, just monkeying around.
If you see a ton of modules with your new 2.6.x kernel, the simplest solution is to compile a monolithic kernel with the modules you need built in. That way lsmod returns nothing.
And what have all these wonderful shuttle missions brought the general public?
Tang. Billions of dollars of research and we get Tang and a pressurized pen that can write upside down. Yay.
The big winners here are private and government contractors that conduct zero gravity research for extended periods of time via Shuttle flights and the ISS. The average taxpayer gains next to nothing and is poorly informed regarding the details of each mission. For awhile in the 80's and 90's, Shuttle missions were so numerous they were barely a blip on the media's radar, now it's a big event due to recent disasters.
I do, however, applaud the bravery of our astronauts. You know the ship you're trusting your life with is older than your children, yet you still get on board and do your job. You know at any point during the mission anything can fail catastrophically leaving you stranded or dead.
Personally I enjoy the concept of exploring space but I fail to see the point of all these Shuttle missions. I think they're a huge waste of money and time. Ok, so it takes practice to get familiar with the outer space environment. Great. Let's go to the moon or Mars already. If it's costing a few billion for each Shuttle launch, why not just hoard that money for a few years and blow it all on one big mission to Mars? The robots have shown us that Mars isn't really as harsh as we expected.
This is news to me. Since when can you complete a call with Sprint service?
Seriously, I live in Dallas which has radio towers for carriers everywhere, and I dumped Sprint about 3 years ago when their quality went straight down. AT&T is good so far but since they've merged with Cingular I get spotty calls...full meter sometimes and the call drops.
I have the latest Quicktime installed and every codec I can think of, and on Windows, I STILL can't watch h.264. It's not really 'there' yet so don't sing it's praises. I even tried it with the Windows version of Mplayer thinking something magical would happen but nope...no dice.
Maybe I'll give it a shot if I can find a Mac.
There's a gigantic difference between how each display actually 'displays' an image.
In a CRT, Cathode Ray Tube, you have a phosphorescent screen that gets lit up by a ray gun. The gun is in the back of the monitor and fires forward, one line at a time (which is why larger monitors are generally much deeper in size, the gun has to be further back to paint the whole screen). Refresh rate is basically how fast this ray gun can draw lines across your screen in sequential order. Better refresh rates (75hz and up) look more solid and less flickery and are therefore easier on your eyes.
Now, in an LCD, you have layers of crystals which act as gates between colored layers of plastic. The 'dead pixel' syndrom happens when every layer of this grid gets locked to 'on' or 'off' in one point. The LCD has a few backlights and a diffusion layer to scatter the light so it shines evenly on the display. It's when all the gates on every layer are open that you get a white pixel (i.e. you're seeing the backlight directly) and when they're all off you see a black pixel (no light is coming through any layer).
These are extremely simplistic definitions but it should give you some idea of the difference. A much more interesting explanation is given here: howstuffworks/lcd.
Actually FIOS is so fast you can't even test it. Nobody has enough bandwidth (or is willing to allocate it to your download) to top it out. 3 years ago I had an uncapped wireless link to a great company called Airband (who is now oversold and sucks) and it was the same way..no matter how many files I downloaded from however many sites simultaneously, I couldn't hit the bandwidth ceiling.
Now, maybe trying to play Doom3 over a remote X session on 2 of these machines would max it out, but then you have issues with lopsided bandwidth.
One thing that always cracks me up is british cursing. Asshole sounds meaner than arse-hole, and bugger off sounds a whole lot nicer than fuck off. If someone told me to bugger off I'd just laugh.
That's pretty much the reason I started remembering VI commands to begin with. Each unix-ish machine I log in on has it by default 90% of the time and I can get to work right away.
I have to give you props even posting as AC. I want a piratizer page I can plug links into and have the text turn out like the parent post. You rule.
LOL! You call that thing hot? You have _got_ to be shitting me. The front grill looks like a Transformer with a big stupid grin on it's face. I totally expect it to light up when it's talking. "Megatron is over that ridge what do we do?!"
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If you like this style of car but want something with less 'rainbow factor', check Nissan's concept at http://www.freshalloy.com/site/cars/nissan/2005/n
It's a way different tab completion than *nix has, and doesn't get the job done very well. It's limited to completing filenames of files/folders in the location you're in, It doesn't seem to let you tab complete binary executable names stored anywhere on the system like *nix does.
Also the bash-like command history is useful sometimes, up arrow to page through them just like *nix. I think Windows is moving more in the *nix direction with the shell features in Vista, which is ironic.
You bring up a very good point, and I have to admit that at times I've been guilty of putting goofy tags at the end of backup conf file names as well.
/etc/ directory in /conf/backups or /conf/defaults from now on to avoid confusion. Then if I need an older, presumably working Apache conf file I'll just head for that folder and there it is. Maybe make it readonly just to be on the safe side.
I think I'm going to create a full backup of my
I call BS on this one, just another Windows apologist claiming the impossible, that reboots aren't necessary.
Just yesterday, the auto update wanted to grab an update to the Microsoft Malware removal tool. Guess what it wanted to do after it updated? You guessed it, it begged for a reboot.
Then today, I see the little alert icon again. Cool, a new update, I'll install you little buddy. Post install, another damn reboot. I really hope Vista improves on this because I'm forced to use Windows to play Battlefield 2 and do a few other tasks.
Would have been nice had he done one of these first:
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.bak
mv
I hate it when anyone changes a conf file and doesn't move it somewhere first, at the end of the day you're grabbing source files and unpacking them just for a default config file.