any reasonably healthy person could out pace and out distance any Segway.
So healthy persons are not the Segway's target market. We're talking about a guy who makes fancy balancing wheelchairs, the segway is more like a fancy motorized "walker" (what do you call them 4-legged cane-like things elderly people walk around with?).
its a neat idea if the Segway werent eclipsed by the venerable bicycle in nearly every respect.
From your young, healthy point of view. But for someone who's proud to be able to stand but too weak to walk all the way to the market and back with the groceries, the segway is much more desirable.
If by "implants" you mean "stuff taped to his skin" then yeah. But if you meant actual implants, then no.
And if by A(rticle) you meant the/. sumary, then that's just sad. The summary made it seem like he has implants, probably because the person who wrote it gobbled up that same "cyborg" bullshit. Its a lie, or at best, a gross exageration.
A human who has certain physiological processes aided or controlled by mechanical or electronic devices.
Yep, he seems to fit that definition to me.
Wich physiological process does he enhance with what device? (I only read half the article, I've read about him before and they didn't seem to be adding any new information).
Please make sure your awnser won't mean that anyone with a cell phone is a cyborg... Carrying gear around, no matter how frequently, does not a cyborg make.
Now, people with cochlear implants or pacemakers clearly are cyborgs, but for some reason articles about cyborgs are never about them.
it takes dozens of generations of carefully controlled breeding to even intelligently select one trait in one species of dog, often at cost. A couple hundred years would not even come close to 1% more species there.
Not only that, but we've been messing with dogs for what, about 15 thousand years? And yet they STILL interbreed with wolves.
Some even say that wolves and dogs are still the same species.
the only reason I'm able to look at the problem without passing out in terror: the knowledge that we can't fuck things up enough to destroy all life on the planet.
That sounds like a challenge! Styrophoam cups here I come...
Actually, here in the US there is a group called "Food not Bombs" who distribute food to the homeless. Now imagine their surprise when they found that we were dropping food and bombs simultaneously on Afghanistan. Well, at least we got it half right:P.
And the "tamper-proof" bombs are the same colour as the food packages!
Another thing to be proud of with respect to the US is that our citizens clearly do care about what happens in the rest of the world, as evidenced by our work as the global police.
On a side note: Side by side, Dreamcast games looked better than PS2 games. The PS2, though technically more powerful, has a nasty little RAM bottleneck that forces them to render at half screen, and interpoplate back up to full screen. The RAM saved was put into textures etc. The DC, however, had an adequate buffer to do full-res video. The result? Clarity. That thing could move textures like mad.
Oh come on! The Dreamcast textures were horrible! I rented Mr Moskito on PS2, and while I enjoyed that silly game, I couldn't help but wonder why it looked like a DC game, turns out it was develloped for that console but it died before they could release it so they ported it quickly to the PS2 and didn't bother retouching the looks so it wouldn't be that ugly.
I remember the Oddworld game was moved to the XBOX because the PS2 was too limiting on the artists.
Oddworld on Xbox was an unholly horror that shamed the previous games. They had fired all the creative team and decided to drop everything good about OddWorld and make yet-another-crappy-3D-game instead of the sequel that they had promised.
The PS2 isn't "too limiting", its simply harder (needs more dev time, time is money). There's plenty of great looking stuff on the PS2 (FFX anyone?). The Xbox does have that extra "shiny" texture, wich is the only visual difference I can make out from the 2 systems. Ooooh! Everything looks like wet plastic! Neat (granted, it *can* be used well, as in Kotor, lots of shiny wet aliens, that was a good use for it).
The Genesis launched to compete with the NES and got stomped on by the SNES.
Er...no.
There was a Sega 8bit system that competed with the Nintendo 8bit system, and the next generation were the 16bits, Genesis and Super NES.
the Dreamcast was Sega's PSX killer, but Sony started pumped the PS2
Sega tried to get ahead of the next generation, released their product early in the game, were on their way for a while, but they were hacked real fast, and since the console is only there to sell the games, they crashed and burned.
Dreamcast was part of this batch of consoles, it is comparable in terms of power and graphics, hell, games that were released (or cancelled) in the dying days of the dreamcast are released on PS2 and GameCube now.
Afghanistan has descended into an anarchy comparable to that which prevailed before the rise of the ruthless but religiously motivated Taliban.
Are they describing the country that just had constitutional convention? The one that just agreed upon a constitution?
The Taliban are gaining territory again, there are large parts of the country that are still under their controll.
The USSR fought the talibans for years before giving up and leaving them the country (back when the US called them freedom fighters...go rent Rambo III and that Timothy Dalton James Bond...Liscense to Kill I think), and the US bombed the shit out of them and then moved on to bomb the shit out of Irak...
The U.S., however, didn't start this conflict.
List of countries the USA has bombed since the end of World War II:
China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Belgian Congo 1964
Guatemala 1964
Dominican Republic 1965-66
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Lebanon 1982-84
Grenada 1983-84
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1981-92
Nicaragua 1981-90
Libya 1986
Iran 1987-88
Libya 1989
Panama 1989-90
Iraq 1991-2002
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1992-94
Croatia 1994 (of Serbs at Krajina)
Bosnia 1995
Iran 1998 (airliner)
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Afghanistan 2001-02
And no attack happened, though many flights were cancelled and some people were questioned (I'm not sure if anyone was formally arrested anywhere).
Considering that a french flight was cancelled because a passenger was a suspected terrorist, and after interregotation it turned out to be a baby, no, no one was arrested.
These are the people in charge of your security. Feel safe, citizen?
This sort of statement fundamentally misunderstands the reasons for World War 2: [...] resentment and anger [...] crushed economy as well as bruised egos left the people ripe for ideological exploitation [...] created scapegoats for existing problems
So, wich one of these did you say isn't relevant to the US now?
do I mind? Not really, after all, I'm not a terrorist!
Neither am I, but you know what else I'm not? A convict. So long as the states are figerprinting and taking mugshots, I'm not setting foot there. Plenty other countries to visit.
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any reasonably healthy person could out pace and out distance any Segway.
So healthy persons are not the Segway's target market.
We're talking about a guy who makes fancy balancing wheelchairs, the segway is more like a fancy motorized "walker" (what do you call them 4-legged cane-like things elderly people walk around with?).
its a neat idea if the Segway werent eclipsed by the venerable bicycle in nearly every respect.
From your young, healthy point of view. But for someone who's proud to be able to stand but too weak to walk all the way to the market and back with the groceries, the segway is much more desirable.
RTF(previous)A. He has implants.
/. sumary, then that's just sad. The summary made it seem like he has implants, probably because the person who wrote it gobbled up that same "cyborg" bullshit. Its a lie, or at best, a gross exageration.
If by "implants" you mean "stuff taped to his skin" then yeah.
But if you meant actual implants, then no.
And if by A(rticle) you meant the
Yeah, because Microsoft makes a monopoly out of everything it touches. For example, the XBOX
Well, the Xbox looks and feels like a monolith, does that count? : )
A human who has certain physiological processes aided or controlled by mechanical or electronic devices.
Yep, he seems to fit that definition to me.
Wich physiological process does he enhance with what device? (I only read half the article, I've read about him before and they didn't seem to be adding any new information).
Please make sure your awnser won't mean that anyone with a cell phone is a cyborg...
Carrying gear around, no matter how frequently, does not a cyborg make.
Now, people with cochlear implants or pacemakers clearly are cyborgs, but for some reason articles about cyborgs are never about them.
Cyborg? He's not a cybernetic organism, he's guy who lugs around gear.
He's no more a cyborg than a guy covered in mud is a golem.
You download the DRM WMA weed file
No, no I don't.
and not petting badgers.
We don't need no stinkin' badgers!
it takes dozens of generations of carefully controlled breeding to even intelligently select one trait in one species of dog, often at cost. A couple hundred years would not even come close to 1% more species there.
Not only that, but we've been messing with dogs for what, about 15 thousand years? And yet they STILL interbreed with wolves.
Some even say that wolves and dogs are still the same species.
the only reason I'm able to look at the problem without passing out in terror: the knowledge that we can't fuck things up enough to destroy all life on the planet.
That sounds like a challenge!
Styrophoam cups here I come...
No, the PSP uses UMD, which seems to be distinct from Hi-MD. UMD has 1.8 GB; Hi-MD has 1.0 GB. The discs' cases are shaped differently as well.
Thanks
Any news on the possibility that this is the same media that the PSP will be using?
Please walk up to your coworkers and smack 'em upside the head once for every file type your product takes over.
This might be considered aggravated assault, since beating someone repeatadly for hours is frowned upon, but please do so nonetheless.
Actually, here in the US there is a group called "Food not Bombs" who distribute food to the homeless. Now imagine their surprise when they found that we were dropping food and bombs simultaneously on Afghanistan. Well, at least we got it half right :P.
And the "tamper-proof" bombs are the same colour as the food packages!
The Russians planned and tried to go to the moon. But when we got there first
Their robots got there first...
telephone (also invented here).
No, invented here (Canada).
Another thing to be proud of with respect to the US is that our citizens clearly do care about what happens in the rest of the world, as evidenced by our work as the global police.
"We bomb you because we care!"
Newton did go crazy, from (among other alchemical things) the mercury he ingested.
I thought it was from mercury fumes, boiling it or something...
On a side note: Side by side, Dreamcast games looked better than PS2 games. The PS2, though technically more powerful, has a nasty little RAM bottleneck that forces them to render at half screen, and interpoplate back up to full screen. The RAM saved was put into textures etc. The DC, however, had an adequate buffer to do full-res video. The result? Clarity. That thing could move textures like mad.
Oh come on!
The Dreamcast textures were horrible! I rented Mr Moskito on PS2, and while I enjoyed that silly game, I couldn't help but wonder why it looked like a DC game, turns out it was develloped for that console but it died before they could release it so they ported it quickly to the PS2 and didn't bother retouching the looks so it wouldn't be that ugly.
I remember the Oddworld game was moved to the XBOX because the PS2 was too limiting on the artists.
Oddworld on Xbox was an unholly horror that shamed the previous games. They had fired all the creative team and decided to drop everything good about OddWorld and make yet-another-crappy-3D-game instead of the sequel that they had promised.
The PS2 isn't "too limiting", its simply harder (needs more dev time, time is money). There's plenty of great looking stuff on the PS2 (FFX anyone?). The Xbox does have that extra "shiny" texture, wich is the only visual difference I can make out from the 2 systems. Ooooh! Everything looks like wet plastic! Neat (granted, it *can* be used well, as in Kotor, lots of shiny wet aliens, that was a good use for it).
The Genesis launched to compete with the NES and got stomped on by the SNES.
Er...no.
There was a Sega 8bit system that competed with the Nintendo 8bit system, and the next generation were the 16bits, Genesis and Super NES.
the Dreamcast was Sega's PSX killer, but Sony started pumped the PS2
Sega tried to get ahead of the next generation, released their product early in the game, were on their way for a while, but they were hacked real fast, and since the console is only there to sell the games, they crashed and burned.
Dreamcast was part of this batch of consoles, it is comparable in terms of power and graphics, hell, games that were released (or cancelled) in the dying days of the dreamcast are released on PS2 and GameCube now.
"Dude... what if, like... our whole universe... is just one tiny atom... in the toenail of some giant dude?"
"Woah, dude."
Man, you should write scripts for the Matrix!
Afghanistan has descended into an anarchy comparable to that which prevailed before the rise of the ruthless but religiously motivated Taliban.
Are they describing the country that just had constitutional convention? The one that just agreed upon a constitution?
The Taliban are gaining territory again, there are large parts of the country that are still under their controll.
The USSR fought the talibans for years before giving up and leaving them the country (back when the US called them freedom fighters...go rent Rambo III and that Timothy Dalton James Bond...Liscense to Kill I think), and the US bombed the shit out of them and then moved on to bomb the shit out of Irak...
The U.S., however, didn't start this conflict.
List of countries the USA has bombed since the end of World War II:
China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Belgian Congo 1964
Guatemala 1964
Dominican Republic 1965-66
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Lebanon 1982-84
Grenada 1983-84
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1981-92
Nicaragua 1981-90
Libya 1986
Iran 1987-88
Libya 1989
Panama 1989-90
Iraq 1991-2002
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1992-94
Croatia 1994 (of Serbs at Krajina)
Bosnia 1995
Iran 1998 (airliner)
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Afghanistan 2001-02
And no attack happened, though many flights were cancelled and some people were questioned (I'm not sure if anyone was formally arrested anywhere).
Considering that a french flight was cancelled because a passenger was a suspected terrorist, and after interregotation it turned out to be a baby, no, no one was arrested.
These are the people in charge of your security. Feel safe, citizen?
This sort of statement fundamentally misunderstands the reasons for World War 2: [...] resentment and anger [...] crushed economy as well as bruised egos left the people ripe for ideological exploitation [...] created scapegoats for existing problems
So, wich one of these did you say isn't relevant to the US now?
Now the US will be safe! No more anthrax letters, no more Oklahoma city bombings, no more highway snipers!
This will end all terrorism! Whoopdeedoo!
everyone is looking at the screen, not the finger...
Time to break out the gummy bears
Finger licking good!
do I mind? Not really, after all, I'm not a terrorist!
Neither am I, but you know what else I'm not? A convict.
So long as the states are figerprinting and taking mugshots, I'm not setting foot there. Plenty other countries to visit.