he robot, named Dextre, has 11-foot arms, a shoulder span of nearly 8 feet, a height of 12 feet, and was built by the Canadian Space Agency. 'Dextre can pivot at the waist, and has seven joints per arm. Its hands, or grippers, have built-in socket wrenches, cameras and lights. Only one arm is designed to move at a time to keep the robot stable and avoid a two-arm collision. The robot has no face or legs, and with its long arms certainly doesn't look human.
And it's out in space, outside the airlock. Man, that's gonna be a bitch to get it to jerk you off, even ignoring the "when nobody's looking" issue.
"The Google fire service allows people to avoid accident sites by tuning electronic devices to automatic updates from the city's RSS news feed, says fire captain Dean Ford. Eventually, Nanaimo plans to equip its grass-cutting machines with GPS devices, so residents piqued by the apparent shabbiness of a particular park or grass verge can use Google to find out when last it was groomed by the city's gardening staff. And the city's cemeteries will soon be mapped to allow Internet users to find out who is buried in each plot."
OH YOU IDIOTS!
I want you guys to scan for topless housewives sunning themselves, sorted and categorized by areola diameter and areola darkness. You can use fuzzy logic to guestimate and thus normalize areola size, uncontracted, on a contracted nipple.
Let the market figure it out. If Wikipedia restricts itself, and some other non-restrictive wiki-clone surges ahead in popularity, so much the better.
From recent developments, Wiki's route may actually be to sell themselves off for several billion, so they'll turn into a joke eventually, anyway, like Yahoo Groups did when they brought egroups or whatever it was.
"Computer, design a ground-launched space plane that can get from New York to Tokyo in under an hour. It must carry up to 300 people and luggage, and be highly reliable."
(*ding*)
George Jetson: Ahh, these 2-hour workdays are killin' me.
When I was in grade school, circa 1976, a simple 4-function red LED calculator was $400 (a new loaded station wagon was around $4000, to give a comparison.) So you're looking around $3,000 in today's money.
I'm sure the studliest, Dilbert-esque early bleeding edge adopters had 'em, but that's about it. But they prolly also had their $2000 Heathkit do-it-yourself computers, too.
We didn't need no steenking com-poo-tors to do our dirty work. No, you didn't download pictures. You went into the fields by the factories and looked for Playboys. Some days you'd get lucky and find a Hustler. You'd rip off a few thin pages and take 'em back to your room and hide 'em, folding them up, being careful not to put a crease on anything vital. And you liked it!
multiple, networked specialized spacecraft swarms that are intelligent enough to perform a single coordinated task together, like analyzing the crops or deciding to destroy humanity, Skynet-style. Actually, it could completely change satellites for the better, according to some experts.
It's interesting to note the 2-hour season ender for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, focused around thwarting the construction of a network of traffic monitor sensors. It's rare to see science fiction lagging behind real-world technolgy in real-time development.
And we haven't even gotten into the robotic mobile machine guns, predator unmanned aerial vehicles, and tiny dragonfly-type robots with poison stingers. Here, not in the Sarah Connor Chronicles.
There are still tens of thousands of Cuban exiles in Florida who had their property seized by Castro, and they want their property back, or compensation for it.
This was Ronald Reagan's argument for continuing trade with South Africa. Then South African opposition leaders convinced him embargos should happen, and much of that was even done prior to any official actions, via public shaming of those companies and individuals ("I ain't gonna play Sun City...") who operated there.
> *gets out his eraser and starts removing that "Land Of The Free" line from all the songbooks...*
"Land of the free" does not include the right to aid oppressive regimes that the US government, and, more specifically, the elected Congress of the United States and the President, consider should be embargoed.
If you do not like it, your proper course of action is political dialog and running for office to change that policy. Which you can do here. Unlike Cuba.
"But we support repression in oil countries" -- What part of "you are free to engage in political dialog and run for office if you don't like it" aren't you understanding?
"But we trade with China" -- " " "?
Deciding which should be dealt with in what ways is what we hire politicians to do. The People deliberately authorized the government, in the Constitution, to have the power to deal with other nations as they see fit. In the mix are short and long term goals, short and long term prospects of change, and overall benefit to the United States, which may include having repressive regimes "on our side" rather than "on their side", which was a much bigger concern during the cold war. Note we did with Cuba what people say we should do -- refuse to deal with the dictator. And we quickly learned he'd just align with the Soviets. So if the locals are gonna be repressed, better to have us trading with them then the Bad Guys.
I was unaware AD&D 1st edition was "horrifically broke" as a rules system.
It seemed to serve us well for years. My level 8 dwarfen fighter sits there still, with +3 scimmy and 5500 platinum worth of money and stuff, enough to get a good start on a reasonably-sized keep of his own.
Quite frankly, having very little, if any, increase in your stats let your stats actually mean something, and thus a +1 ring of protection or +3 girdle of giant strength actually improved your character noticeably, unlike the most modern versions of D&D where fighters amp their strength to the low to mid 20's, rangers their agility, wizards their int.
That provides more opportunity for the little strokes as you ding up in level, but it loses some of the awesomeness of having a fighter with 18/92 strength and a simple +3 sword, which adds +3 to to-hit and to damage.
Nah, I'll take that "horribly broke" system over a "fixed" system with detailed rules on tumbling or latrine construction mini-packages, or 37 different rolls to complete the calculations for a critical hit.
The other 99% of people who have never heard of Slashdot, which is why Microsoft, Cisco, and the like are worth a hundred billion dollars, shouldn't have to deal with this.
Real engineers realize that selling products by the millions leads to 1 in 100 problems, 1 in 1000 problems, etc. For that many on a worldwide scale, 1 in 1,000,000 problems add up to hundreds of complaints. Real engineering addresses the competency level of your customers to reduce headaches for your corporation.
"PEBKAC" isn't something you can blow off in the real world of mass production -- you have to address the issues and prevent them or you'll lose customers.
Alternatively, you're just protecting your money from theft by a power hungry set of self-styled leaders and the masses that empower them, said people defining their theft as not-theft because they hold the guns and are the biggest local group of people around.
What part of "not investing billions in infrastructure that, if said angry politicians get their way, will become total useless losses in a few years" don't you understand?
Nobody said these were tough times for oil producers. But if you think someone is "sticking it to you", look not to the oil companies, but to the governments and their messing with ethanol, restrictive regulation, and threats of making the US not dependent on foreign oil.
Without ethanol mandates and hideous costs and delays associated with building refineries, I have no doubt gas would still be sub-$2.00 a gallon, if not in the $1.30-$1.50 range, as it was in the middle of the Clinton administration just before Ethanol, and just after the first $2.30 per gallon shock summer.
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Oh for Christ's sake, the Klingons could never get this far, much less invent starships and other crap.
I thought Windows 7 was relased around 1998? Or was it 2003? Now I'm confused...
It's not a comic. It's a graphic novel!
It's not a doll. It's an action figure!
It's not a dress. It's a kilt!
This from a guy with at least 10 graphic novels and 3 collectible action figures, including Dr. McCoy and Aala Secura.
> MadPenguin.org wonders why more Linux users aren't gamers
In the joke writing industry, this is known as "lobbing a softball".
And it's out in space, outside the airlock. Man, that's gonna be a bitch to get it to jerk you off, even ignoring the "when nobody's looking" issue.
OH YOU IDIOTS!
I want you guys to scan for topless housewives sunning themselves, sorted and categorized by areola diameter and areola darkness. You can use fuzzy logic to guestimate and thus normalize areola size, uncontracted, on a contracted nipple.
Let the market figure it out. If Wikipedia restricts itself, and some other non-restrictive wiki-clone surges ahead in popularity, so much the better.
From recent developments, Wiki's route may actually be to sell themselves off for several billion, so they'll turn into a joke eventually, anyway, like Yahoo Groups did when they brought egroups or whatever it was.
Is the OT joking?
Rule for Nerds Seeking A Female:
If female is alive and doesn't run screaming within first 10 seconds
then she is fair game for a l4m34553d attempt
Alive is optional.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can only have knots in 3 dimensions. What's your point?
"Computer, design a ground-launched space plane that can get from New York to Tokyo in under an hour. It must carry up to 300 people and luggage, and be highly reliable."
(*ding*)
George Jetson: Ahh, these 2-hour workdays are killin' me.
"Nobody cares about that kind of pilot anymore. They want astronauts, and cap-sools up in outer space."
When I was in grade school, circa 1976, a simple 4-function red LED calculator was $400 (a new loaded station wagon was around $4000, to give a comparison.) So you're looking around $3,000 in today's money.
I'm sure the studliest, Dilbert-esque early bleeding edge adopters had 'em, but that's about it. But they prolly also had their $2000 Heathkit do-it-yourself computers, too.
We didn't need no steenking com-poo-tors to do our dirty work. No, you didn't download pictures. You went into the fields by the factories and looked for Playboys. Some days you'd get lucky and find a Hustler. You'd rip off a few thin pages and take 'em back to your room and hide 'em, folding them up, being careful not to put a crease on anything vital. And you liked it!
God I miss hair.
The first tomography test shot was done painstakingly, one beam at a time, and was hand-analyzed and graphed.
It doesn't require all that much computer horsepower for a basic picture. The real horsepower is needed for the graphics display.
> But Jim McLane's proposal includes a couple of major caveats: the trip to
> Mars should be one-way, and have a crew of only one person.
Two people. The astronaut and Rosie.
It's interesting to note the 2-hour season ender for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, focused around thwarting the construction of a network of traffic monitor sensors. It's rare to see science fiction lagging behind real-world technolgy in real-time development.
And we haven't even gotten into the robotic mobile machine guns, predator unmanned aerial vehicles, and tiny dragonfly-type robots with poison stingers. Here, not in the Sarah Connor Chronicles.
There are still tens of thousands of Cuban exiles in Florida who had their property seized by Castro, and they want their property back, or compensation for it.
This was Ronald Reagan's argument for continuing trade with South Africa. Then South African opposition leaders convinced him embargos should happen, and much of that was even done prior to any official actions, via public shaming of those companies and individuals ("I ain't gonna play Sun City...") who operated there.
> *gets out his eraser and starts removing that "Land Of The Free" line from all the songbooks...*
"Land of the free" does not include the right to aid oppressive regimes that the US government, and, more specifically, the elected Congress of the United States and the President, consider should be embargoed.
If you do not like it, your proper course of action is political dialog and running for office to change that policy. Which you can do here. Unlike Cuba.
"But we support repression in oil countries" -- What part of "you are free to engage in political dialog and run for office if you don't like it" aren't you understanding?
"But we trade with China" -- " " "?
Deciding which should be dealt with in what ways is what we hire politicians to do. The People deliberately authorized the government, in the Constitution, to have the power to deal with other nations as they see fit. In the mix are short and long term goals, short and long term prospects of change, and overall benefit to the United States, which may include having repressive regimes "on our side" rather than "on their side", which was a much bigger concern during the cold war. Note we did with Cuba what people say we should do -- refuse to deal with the dictator. And we quickly learned he'd just align with the Soviets. So if the locals are gonna be repressed, better to have us trading with them then the Bad Guys.
I was unaware AD&D 1st edition was "horrifically broke" as a rules system.
It seemed to serve us well for years. My level 8 dwarfen fighter sits there still, with +3 scimmy and 5500 platinum worth of money and stuff, enough to get a good start on a reasonably-sized keep of his own.
Quite frankly, having very little, if any, increase in your stats let your stats actually mean something, and thus a +1 ring of protection or +3 girdle of giant strength actually improved your character noticeably, unlike the most modern versions of D&D where fighters amp their strength to the low to mid 20's, rangers their agility, wizards their int.
That provides more opportunity for the little strokes as you ding up in level, but it loses some of the awesomeness of having a fighter with 18/92 strength and a simple +3 sword, which adds +3 to to-hit and to damage.
Nah, I'll take that "horribly broke" system over a "fixed" system with detailed rules on tumbling or latrine construction mini-packages, or 37 different rolls to complete the calculations for a critical hit.
The champ chimp chump chomped chemporaneously.
Thank you!
The other 99% of people who have never heard of Slashdot, which is why Microsoft, Cisco, and the like are worth a hundred billion dollars, shouldn't have to deal with this.
Real engineers realize that selling products by the millions leads to 1 in 100 problems, 1 in 1000 problems, etc. For that many on a worldwide scale, 1 in 1,000,000 problems add up to hundreds of complaints. Real engineering addresses the competency level of your customers to reduce headaches for your corporation.
"PEBKAC" isn't something you can blow off in the real world of mass production -- you have to address the issues and prevent them or you'll lose customers.
> We have discussed some of the ways in which the EU, and its member
> countries, engage in their own brand of censorship.
While China, et al., are far worse, it's true the EU should "take the plank out of its own eye before searching for splinters in others'."
Alternatively, you're just protecting your money from theft by a power hungry set of self-styled leaders and the masses that empower them, said people defining their theft as not-theft because they hold the guns and are the biggest local group of people around.
Much like Dr. Laura claimed those nudie shots of that redhead 1. Were not her and 2. She owned the copyright on them.
Why she owned the copyright on some other female was never stated.
Personally, any time lawyers make contradictory claims, they and their clients should be shot.
What part of " not investing billions in infrastructure that, if said angry politicians get their way, will become total useless losses in a few years" don't you understand?
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Nobody said these were tough times for oil producers. But if you think someone is "sticking it to you", look not to the oil companies, but to the governments and their messing with ethanol, restrictive regulation, and threats of making the US not dependent on foreign oil.
Without ethanol mandates and hideous costs and delays associated with building refineries, I have no doubt gas would still be sub-$2.00 a gallon, if not in the $1.30-$1.50 range, as it was in the middle of the Clinton administration just before Ethanol, and just after the first $2.30 per gallon shock summer.
Julian Simon rolls over in his grave yet again.