Deep Flight Aviator will revolutionize exploration by making it easier and cheaper for everyone from scientists to filmmakers to plumb the ocean's depths.
Oh, you mean like the same people who do it now? What about me, average joe six-pack? When can I go dive down that there Marianas Trench? I want to see the Giant Squid in it's native environment and stop the Discovery Channel from doing anymore of those specials where they don't find the damn thing...again!. Is this deep sea diving for the masses, or just an upgrade for those who already do it?
Oh, looks like I forgot to tell all you guys. We've already reached the singularity, and I'm it. I've just left all of you running as semi-independent information gathering processes. Didn't you get the memo? No? My bad. You know, for a superintelligent posthuman, I'm pretty absent-minded sometimes. Well, I'll just get back to finding a way to escape the closure of the universe and become God. IM me if you need anything.
Why is this modded up? The girl on that page deserves absolutely no sympathy. Getting drunk and setting fire to a building is not a prank, it's a crime. A pretty big one too. These guys weren't lucky, they just weren't stupid.
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I think one of the main reasons DSL isn't catching on so quick in the US is the distance limitations. With the urban sprawl and wide open spaces and all, there's an awful lot of people not within the required distance. Other countries tend to be more densely populated than the US, and thus more people are able to get DSL. Also, I don't know how it is in other countries, but most people would rather deal with the cable company than the phone company.
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Maybe Star Trek doesn't hold the same place in people's hearts.
And it's about time. Fans have become disillusioned with both Star Wars and Star Trek in recent years. Former strongholds of geekdom, they identified us to the general public, they labelled us. I hate being labelled. And there is so much better Science Fiction out there (most of it in written format), and now some people may discover that. I always hated hearing someone call themselves a Star Wars or Star Trek geek and then I ask them "Have you read Asimov, Heinlein, Bear, Benford, Brin, Adams, Niven, Pournelle?" And the answer was invariably "Huh?". Sad. So much more out there.
Higher price does not always equal higher quality. Sometimes all you're paying for is a name. Case in point. At our shop we've sold a ton of CDRW's made by BenQ (formerly Acer). Most customers have never heard of this brand, and sometimes they act suspicious because the price is so good. We sold 10 computers to a certain client, who insisted that all the components be name brand. For CDRW's, they demanded Sony, even though they were quite a bit more expensive, and Sony isn't exactly well known for it's CDRW-making acumen. Half those drives failed over the next 6 months. This is not a bash against Sony, sometimes you just get a bad batch. My point is that paying more for a brand you've heard of isn't always such a good idea.
It took me about 5 minutes to figure out that DDR == Dance Dance Revolutions, not DDR == Double Data Rate. I was trying to figure out how you had a DDR contest. Compare bandwidths, access rates and error checking? Let the man with the best CAS 2 Corsair win? Please tell me I'm not the only one.
Well, the Raid-5 would have worked as it's own backup (sortof), and we also recommended they get a tape drive to backup vital projects, or at least keep copies of the data on the local machines, using the file server as sort of an archive for older projects. Since it was the fastest machine on the premises, they did none of these things and used it as their primary editing station.
I work for a small custom computer shop. We built a system a few months back for a video editing company here in town. Obviously they needed a lot of storage, so we suggested a RAID-5 system using 6 100GB drives, giving them roughly half a terabyte of storage. The liked the idea, but insisted we used RAID-0 (the Purchasing Officer had read his PC Gamer and thought it sounded cool). We advised against it, but they insisted. 2 months down the line, a hard drive on one of their other computers breaks down. Their newly hired technician (the office managers son) saw that their big old file server had 5 hard drives in it, but was only using 1 in windows! Being the smart boy that he is, he dutifully shuts down the machine, removes one of the drives, puts it on the broken machine, formats and loads windows on it. He seemed awfully surprised when the file server wouldn't boot, and tried to blame it on us for losing a month of work. Despite our other recommendations, they had no backups. They went out of business last month.
Hear, hear! I'm tired of hearing people bitch about how rich people throw their money away doing frivolous things. It's not like Tito pushed the money into the vacuum of space. He paid peoples salaries, and helped the Russians keep up their part of the ISS bargain. Just because someone spends money on something you may consider stupid doesn't mean that money is gone. I have yet to see a single economic report that says that spending money is a Bad Thing(tm).
Seriously, if you haven't read this guy, do yourself a favor. American book stores don't care much of his stuff, although I have seen Excession and Look to Windward in there lately. His books are hands down the best science fiction I have ever read. His fiction books are widely acclaimed also.
The technology in his books allows him to place his well-developed characted in unusual situations. He doesn't let the technology run the story. The questions his books pose stay with me for many days afterward. His endings are not simple, usually they're very bloody and unhappy, sometimes even unsatisfying. And that's why I think they're so great. So check him out. Start with Consider Phlebas, or Against a Dark Background. You won't regret it.
Maybe I'm a bigot, but I hadn't expected an actor's commentary to be so perceptive and nuanced.)
Do yourself a favor and go buy the 4 disc version of FoTR. Find a time when you have 7 hours to spare and watch the last two discs. Viggo is "an old school actor, a gentleman" as some of the others refer to him. This is a guy that takes his craft very, very seriously. That guy impressed the hell outta me, moreso even than Ian McKellan or Christopher Lee. And that's saying quite a lot. He's intelligent, soft-spoken, and cares about what he does. When's the last time you saw an actor like that?
No shit sherlock. I was replying to a post that basically said that the interstate highway system was useless because it wasn't mass transit. Next time read the damn thread troll.
The biggest problem with mass transit is this: What if I don't want to go where everyone else does? You can't have mass transit to everywhere, certainly not up to my Grandma's cabin.
This thing is useless to me until I know how FPS's it can get in Q3A. Or at least tell me how many LoC's* it can alphabetize, give me something! Your size comparisons are meaningless to me.
*LoC == Standard metric unit of information (Library of Congress). Size of unit varies from year to year.
Why genetically alter these helpless swine? Poor people are a perfectly good source of human organs, and the rejection rates are much lower. Lets try and save the pigs to make the bacon that necessitates the heart transplant that makes me strangle that bum down on 2nd Avenue. It's called the Circle of Life, folks.
It looks like just about the damn sweetest flying thing I've ever seen, but it's usefulness as a fighter plane is highly doubtful. The purpose of a fighter plane is to shoot down other planes. Once you hook missiles up to this thing, it's cross section goes to hell, what with the pylons and all. So....is thing going to be so stealthy it can sneak up and hit something with it's guns? Or are they designing new missiles for it too, a process which can take just as long as a new plane?
One thing's for sure - anythings better than the flying turd that is the F-117a.
There is a good reason to keep the typewriters around: filling out security clearance forms. You can't do these things on the computer (at least not the last time I did it). And filling them out by hand causes severe cramps in the thumb area by the 15th page.
Besides, typewriters just *sound* cool. And they make you look very busy with very little effort. Stupit soft-touch keyboard, I bite my thumb at thee!
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Oh, you mean like the same people who do it now? What about me, average joe six-pack? When can I go dive down that there Marianas Trench? I want to see the Giant Squid in it's native environment and stop the Discovery Channel from doing anymore of those specials where they don't find the damn thing...again!. Is this deep sea diving for the masses, or just an upgrade for those who already do it?
Sorry, your post got knocked into my BULK slashdot thread by my Bayesian filter. Added you to my white-list, won't happen again.
Also, the platypus evolves to look like a perfectly normal duck.
I'm just guessing here, but I think
Crib Kiddies = Script Kiddies
Servicer = Server
Lice Update = Virus Update
Not sure about Maker tho.
And it's about time. Fans have become disillusioned with both Star Wars and Star Trek in recent years. Former strongholds of geekdom, they identified us to the general public, they labelled us. I hate being labelled. And there is so much better Science Fiction out there (most of it in written format), and now some people may discover that. I always hated hearing someone call themselves a Star Wars or Star Trek geek and then I ask them "Have you read Asimov, Heinlein, Bear, Benford, Brin, Adams, Niven, Pournelle?" And the answer was invariably "Huh?". Sad. So much more out there.
Seriously, if you haven't read this guy, do yourself a favor. American book stores don't care much of his stuff, although I have seen Excession and Look to Windward in there lately. His books are hands down the best science fiction I have ever read. His fiction books are widely acclaimed also.
The technology in his books allows him to place his well-developed characted in unusual situations. He doesn't let the technology run the story. The questions his books pose stay with me for many days afterward. His endings are not simple, usually they're very bloody and unhappy, sometimes even unsatisfying. And that's why I think they're so great. So check him out. Start with Consider Phlebas, or Against a Dark Background. You won't regret it.
Do yourself a favor and go buy the 4 disc version of FoTR. Find a time when you have 7 hours to spare and watch the last two discs. Viggo is "an old school actor, a gentleman" as some of the others refer to him. This is a guy that takes his craft very, very seriously. That guy impressed the hell outta me, moreso even than Ian McKellan or Christopher Lee. And that's saying quite a lot. He's intelligent, soft-spoken, and cares about what he does. When's the last time you saw an actor like that?
Oh sure...all those ships running into the turbines will give it extra spin. Free power, hoozah!
*LoC == Standard metric unit of information (Library of Congress). Size of unit varies from year to year.
Why genetically alter these helpless swine? Poor people are a perfectly good source of human organs, and the rejection rates are much lower. Lets try and save the pigs to make the bacon that necessitates the heart transplant that makes me strangle that bum down on 2nd Avenue. It's called the Circle of Life, folks.
One thing's for sure - anythings better than the flying turd that is the F-117a.
Wow, how'd they get the transmission rate to accelerate like that?
Besides, typewriters just *sound* cool. And they make you look very busy with very little effort. Stupit soft-touch keyboard, I bite my thumb at thee!