First off, after looking at the picture, it's safe to assume they weren't about to make a computer game out of whatever it is they're doing.
Second, isn't it time we all share our cultures? Didn't anybody tell these people that it's good when people embrace your traditions? 100 years ago we would have given them the big "FREAKS" stamp, taken over their country, and forced them into the casino business or something, no culture for you.
Of course, maybe I just can't relate, I'm American, it's not like my roots go way back. My family is like german-english-swedish, a collection of the top 3 European assholes in history, maybe I should shut up about culture. What do you other cultureless Americans think? Do we have the right to criticize here?
How do we position ourselves so the next one hits LA? I'm a little dissapointed this one missed, we could have improved upon so many problems (energy crisis, spontaneous riots, not to mention whatever hapless celebrities are lucky enough to get hit...)
I'm sorry, sis, the entire cast of the Young and the Restless was taken out by that nasty meteor, we'll just have to watch Star Wars again...
That's beside the point. I'm at least supporting someone who supported buying the CD, I'm supporting the idea of putting music on a peice of plastic, it's the thought that counts.
I'm worried about how this could effect foriegn relations, I mean come on, I kicked the crap out of my sister when we were kids because she took apart my planetary combustion activator to make a barbie coffee table, what are the Russians going to do if they find out the Americans, who aren't even allowed to play with their legos, did something similar? Rat them out, that's what, it's a formula for disaster. You could of course argue that these are adults and wouldn't have problems like that, but Legos are hard to outgrow, anybody else notice that? I'm 21 and still had the urge to run out and buy that technic destroyer droid, if a friend of mine owned one I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off it, even if it meant losing job or making Russians very very angry.
I've bought more CD's since I started downloading music, I keep finding these artists who I thought were one hit wonders but their other songs are actually really good and I decided I needed the whole package, every song, cover art, ect. I am different from a lot of people though, my current hard drive is 6G (I'm not a gamer, I don't need a lot of space so it's the last thing to get upgraded), I don't have a CD burner, I have moral issues with not paying an artist for something so eventually I like to make sure they get something somehow. I only bought 2-3 CD's a year before I broke down and got Audiogalaxy (it's cooler than Napster), then I bought four CD's in a month, all used, but still purchased legally.
Sweet! Not quite as cool as a dome on the moon or something, but still pretty interesting. And maybe the vacuum of space will help keep noises in the room across the ship from yours inaudible.
Oh how sad! I had hopes for text ads, they're so nice and unobtrusive, I click them just to support the idea of an ad that doesn't flash at me and scream "SHOCK MY MONKEY!" or something like that. I was very dissapointed when goto.com fell under, it's that same thing, I want to think business should be rewarded for being noble but it seems like in the computer world they aren't any more. Oh hell, forget the computer world, maybe it's not as new as I think, the old "nice guys don't get laid thing," hell. Mean people suck. This has gotten offtopic, I'll stop ranting.
I bet it was Microsoft. They've got underground script kiddie commune somewhere, sipping black coffee and trying to be evil little H4X0R puppets, like the borg.
Yeah, I don't see mars life as a threat, but with all this caution going on NASA's part the rest of the world should follow the example, you know, protect ourselves from the dangerous things in life. AOL free trial disks, don't throw them away, make sure they're hermetically sealed so as not to hurt anyone. Jello, what is that stuff, seriously? It should be kept away from major cities.
An while we're at it, the average slashdot reader should be quarantined, we might spread geek, that's how I got it, I was going to be a model before this web site, now I'm all nerdy.
What the author of this article doesn't mention is that although information is convenient, information is also power and anyone who has information about you has a potentially dangerous power to use that to their advantage. In a perfect world, having our medical records and the fact that we like movies about space invasion out for the world to see would work okay. In the real world, there are bad people, dangerous people, who aren't going to use that information for your advantage. We need to protect ourselves, the world can be an evil place and we've been making sacrifices to account for that since the beginning of time. (it's why communism fails as well, but that's an entirely different post.)
Big web sites have these from time to time, shake things up, keep everybody on their toes, give us all something to think about. It's too bad it happens to ones on our side, of course. Guess something besides their source was left open, huh?
This was back when people seemed to like government and whatever goals it set, there's such a debate about space exploration these days no politician would dare make a speech like JFK did.
Someone famous, powerful, or beautiful needs to outline the benefits of doing space things, outside of the fact that the pictures are pretty, am I right? I don't fit the above mentioned criteria, otherwise I'd make known the technological advances NASA has brought about trying to improve our space-lives. America has lost it's idealism, that's no surprise, it's just nice to look back and know that the time period we had it in is still admired.
Until then, my generation has to wait for something like this to capture our imagination again.
First off, I disagree with the statement that the non-intels of the world need to band together for protection, AMD is, in my opinion, every bit as good if not better then our precious pentium cranking friends.
So I wouldn't call this an alliance so much as a backing up of what deserves to be backed, Transmeta seems to need a step into the 64 bit world and AMD is the perfect company to help them into it. There's something in it for AMD and they don't have to give up anything, they earned this.
There are too many applied computer scientists in the world, that's why I admire documents like these. So it's far fetched. Not terribly applicable to today's needs. I thought it spoke to me, in the way pure science speaks to me. When Marie Curie was discovering radium, her goals were entirely lofty, it's science, don't apply it, don't make money with it, don't win wars with it, don't launch Unreal Tournament with martians, just think about it, it's a beautiful thing. Know your limits, appreciate what you've got, admire how the universe can work for you.
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I have just a few comments to make...
First off, after looking at the picture, it's safe to assume they weren't about to make a computer game out of whatever it is they're doing.
Second, isn't it time we all share our cultures? Didn't anybody tell these people that it's good when people embrace your traditions? 100 years ago we would have given them the big "FREAKS" stamp, taken over their country, and forced them into the casino business or something, no culture for you.
Of course, maybe I just can't relate, I'm American, it's not like my roots go way back. My family is like german-english-swedish, a collection of the top 3 European assholes in history, maybe I should shut up about culture. What do you other cultureless Americans think? Do we have the right to criticize here?
How do we position ourselves so the next one hits LA? I'm a little dissapointed this one missed, we could have improved upon so many problems (energy crisis, spontaneous riots, not to mention whatever hapless celebrities are lucky enough to get hit...)
I'm sorry, sis, the entire cast of the Young and the Restless was taken out by that nasty meteor, we'll just have to watch Star Wars again...
That's beside the point. I'm at least supporting someone who supported buying the CD, I'm supporting the idea of putting music on a peice of plastic, it's the thought that counts.
I'm worried about how this could effect foriegn relations, I mean come on, I kicked the crap out of my sister when we were kids because she took apart my planetary combustion activator to make a barbie coffee table, what are the Russians going to do if they find out the Americans, who aren't even allowed to play with their legos, did something similar? Rat them out, that's what, it's a formula for disaster. You could of course argue that these are adults and wouldn't have problems like that, but Legos are hard to outgrow, anybody else notice that? I'm 21 and still had the urge to run out and buy that technic destroyer droid, if a friend of mine owned one I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off it, even if it meant losing job or making Russians very very angry.
I've bought more CD's since I started downloading music, I keep finding these artists who I thought were one hit wonders but their other songs are actually really good and I decided I needed the whole package, every song, cover art, ect. I am different from a lot of people though, my current hard drive is 6G (I'm not a gamer, I don't need a lot of space so it's the last thing to get upgraded), I don't have a CD burner, I have moral issues with not paying an artist for something so eventually I like to make sure they get something somehow. I only bought 2-3 CD's a year before I broke down and got Audiogalaxy (it's cooler than Napster), then I bought four CD's in a month, all used, but still purchased legally.
Sweet! Not quite as cool as a dome on the moon or something, but still pretty interesting. And maybe the vacuum of space will help keep noises in the room across the ship from yours inaudible.
But wait, how will I check my e-mail?
Crap did I say goto? I meant go. I smoke a lot of crack on the weekends.
Oh how sad! I had hopes for text ads, they're so nice and unobtrusive, I click them just to support the idea of an ad that doesn't flash at me and scream "SHOCK MY MONKEY!" or something like that. I was very dissapointed when goto.com fell under, it's that same thing, I want to think business should be rewarded for being noble but it seems like in the computer world they aren't any more. Oh hell, forget the computer world, maybe it's not as new as I think, the old "nice guys don't get laid thing," hell. Mean people suck. This has gotten offtopic, I'll stop ranting.
I bet it was Microsoft. They've got underground script kiddie commune somewhere, sipping black coffee and trying to be evil little H4X0R puppets, like the borg.
or not, whatever.
Yeah, I don't see mars life as a threat, but with all this caution going on NASA's part the rest of the world should follow the example, you know, protect ourselves from the dangerous things in life. AOL free trial disks, don't throw them away, make sure they're hermetically sealed so as not to hurt anyone. Jello, what is that stuff, seriously? It should be kept away from major cities.
An while we're at it, the average slashdot reader should be quarantined, we might spread geek, that's how I got it, I was going to be a model before this web site, now I'm all nerdy.
What the author of this article doesn't mention is that although information is convenient, information is also power and anyone who has information about you has a potentially dangerous power to use that to their advantage. In a perfect world, having our medical records and the fact that we like movies about space invasion out for the world to see would work okay. In the real world, there are bad people, dangerous people, who aren't going to use that information for your advantage. We need to protect ourselves, the world can be an evil place and we've been making sacrifices to account for that since the beginning of time. (it's why communism fails as well, but that's an entirely different post.)
Big web sites have these from time to time, shake things up, keep everybody on their toes, give us all something to think about. It's too bad it happens to ones on our side, of course. Guess something besides their source was left open, huh?
Reasons:
1) It averages 40 below on Mars, that's a Canadian temperature if nothing else.
2) The US wouldn't laugh at them so much if they beat us to a standard. I'm not so sure why we do now, but that's another issue.
3) Send Tom Green there, damn I'd like to kill that guy.
This was back when people seemed to like government and whatever goals it set, there's such a debate about space exploration these days no politician would dare make a speech like JFK did.
Someone famous, powerful, or beautiful needs to outline the benefits of doing space things, outside of the fact that the pictures are pretty, am I right? I don't fit the above mentioned criteria, otherwise I'd make known the technological advances NASA has brought about trying to improve our space-lives. America has lost it's idealism, that's no surprise, it's just nice to look back and know that the time period we had it in is still admired.
Until then, my generation has to wait for something like this to capture our imagination again.
First off, I disagree with the statement that the non-intels of the world need to band together for protection, AMD is, in my opinion, every bit as good if not better then our precious pentium cranking friends.
So I wouldn't call this an alliance so much as a backing up of what deserves to be backed, Transmeta seems to need a step into the 64 bit world and AMD is the perfect company to help them into it. There's something in it for AMD and they don't have to give up anything, they earned this.
I love my chip! You love my chip too!
Therefore be at peace with physics...
There are too many applied computer scientists in the world, that's why I admire documents like these. So it's far fetched. Not terribly applicable to today's needs. I thought it spoke to me, in the way pure science speaks to me. When Marie Curie was discovering radium, her goals were entirely lofty, it's science, don't apply it, don't make money with it, don't win wars with it, don't launch Unreal Tournament with martians, just think about it, it's a beautiful thing. Know your limits, appreciate what you've got, admire how the universe can work for you.
Be backward compatible.