But I suspect the pricing will be more like $1 for an episode of the Daily Show *with* commercials
I watch the Daily Show online, it's theoretically on the comedy central website, but being on the wrong side of a border, I watch it on the crummy site of the local media-bullshit company. Their site sucks, I hate them, I hope their business will fail, but I can watch the show on their site, for now... when it's uloadded and working (which is about 85% of the time).
In the latimes interview, James Cameron even stated that
I'm not arguing the factual merits of your claims, but I'd like to remind you that what showbiz people say in interviews can be pure utter bullshit designed to enhance shareholder value. They'll tell you they're very faithful to the source material, they'll tell you their tech is revolutionary, they'll say ANYTHING to get you to fork over some money. Anything. Grains of salt are mandatory.
I doubt it, VLC can't handle Disney DRM, not since Wall-E (Pixar is the only Disney content I encounter on DVD). I have to load up a different player when I want to watch Up. Annoying.
Wouldn't the cost of returning the robot to earth far exceed the cost of simply building a new one? I thought the whole point of using automatons for exploration was that you could leave them there!
Do you have any idea the kind of poon you can score when you show up at a club with a space robot that went to the moon?
This is good development, to be sure... but I think TFA exaggerates by saying that the device can be so thin that it can be placed on a windshield.
Yeah, I don't know what's up with the car angle. I see what they did and I think "night vision goggles that are just goggles! Finally!" (as opposed to the bulky getup currently available).
The usual rough figure for PV solar to provide for current US electricity consumption is about 10,000 square miles of Southwestern desert -- a square 100 miles on a side. Of course, you'd also need enormous changes in the national transmission grid, and you'd have to find places to store a bunch of the daytime production for use at night (lots of pumped hydro storage located around the country might work for that).
I think it would be better to distribute the capabilities than it is to have them concentrated in one disaster-ready site. Like how the darpa net was designed to route around damage. That way when the inevitable earthquake/tornado/asteroid/human-error lays waste to a few thousand square miles of desert or that one reservoir, life goes on elsewhere.
How about distributing the power storage to smaller, less distant sites with cuckoo clock technology? Weights on chains for domestic use, and I suppose water silos could do for city hydro. Come to think of it, we could spread the new-york look and have water towers on every building, for storing water/energy. With another holding tank in the basement, for transfers. When you look at satellite images of cities, it's usually a big gray patch, I say we need to put that roof real-estate to better use than beds of gravel.
It never fails to astound me when Men of God not only want to live their own lives by their code of conduct, but they want me to live that way, also.
Why would it astound you? That's the ENTIRE POINT of inventing gods: To get people to obey you, as the emissary of those absent authority figures. And remember: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
one of the main problems with the institution these days: it's deeply, utterly, incompatible with any notions of democracy
Rapidly reproducing groups with a central decision-making, top-down authority structure are VERY compatible with democracy: Lots of votes, all toeing the line.
It turned out that while most of the programming and mission planning had been done in units of measurement from the Imperial system used in the US, the software to control the orbiter's thrusters had been written with units of measurement from the metric system.
And that is WRONG! It was the software that had the archaic units, and the rest of the spaceship was built with international units.
seriously warrants armed rebellion against the government.
That would make for an interesting newsday. Lots of filmed explosions that would both shock and awe the audience, the ratings will be phenomenal. And then business as usual so the news can milk those targeted strikes for all they're worth.
The government does not have the power to arbitrarily deny rights just because it suits their purposes to do so. That is a key difference between the US government and most governments of the past (and even many of the present).
Super insightful post, but you misspelled "theoretically" there at the end. Sorry to nitpick on what I assume to be some hilarious spellcheck glitch.
Or, without the sarcasm:
You forgot the constitutional joker: Interstate Commerce. That sucker lets you do ANYTHING. Example: Interstate commercial air travel is a kind of interstate commerce, so they get to make any rule they want, yay! Or... Say you don't want sick people growing pot in their house and smoking it there? Interstate commerce will give you an excuse to take those suffering folk and really fuck up their lives, just because! Though I guess that trick only works if you have soulless monsters in the supreme court. Like that guy that laughs when he says that torture is not punishment, he's a really horrible person, and he's got tons of power.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that on paper your government doesn't have that power, but in practice they actually do arbitrarily deny rights just because it suits their purposes, and they do it on a daily basis. Lets just be happy we can still bitch about it on the internet.
so neither Ann nor these guys are allowed to say "someone should go and kill that person" like they do,
<citation required>
I don't know who "these guys" are, but I've read every one of Anne Coulter's books and many of her columns, and I have yet to see her say "someone should go kill that person".
RTFA, those guys.
Coulter: Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
I don't know if you've ever read Terry Pratchett novels, but a recurring joke is when the police investigate a death and classify it as suicide instead of murder - because the person did something provocative that would obviously lead to murder.
I love Pratchett but that joke is much older than he is.
We don't exactly help the situation when we have Western countries that outlaw hate speech (e.g. Canada, which recently threatened Anne Coulter when she was going to speak at a university).
That law says you can't incite violence, so neither Ann nor these guys are allowed to say "someone should go and kill that person" like they do, pretending they didn't mean to actually say what they actually said.
In Canada, if someone makes fun of your prophet and/or economic model, you're allowed to say you're angry, you're allowed to make fun of them right back in their face, but you're not allowed to say "boy it would sure please our god is someone went and killed them, I'm not threatening them, but someone should really go at this address, and someone should really hurt them. This is another address where they might be. Divine will is that these people come to harm from the hand of a believer. No threat, just innocently naming names and places, and reminding people that they can be sure to go to heaven if they kill these people."
Banning this isn't the great threat to free speech you make it out to be. BTW, it's also specifically illegal to murder someone by causing them to have a heart attack in Canada. Crazy, eh?
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I'm sure there's ditches that need digging in Spain. These guys can pick up a shovel and go earn an honest living.
But I suspect the pricing will be more like $1 for an episode of the Daily Show *with* commercials
I watch the Daily Show online, it's theoretically on the comedy central website, but being on the wrong side of a border, I watch it on the crummy site of the local media-bullshit company. Their site sucks, I hate them, I hope their business will fail, but I can watch the show on their site, for now... when it's uloadded and working (which is about 85% of the time).
here's some shots of rotating computer models."
I wanna see that mesh! And those texture files. Did they use displacement of normal maps? Both depending on distance from camera? I wanna know!
In the latimes interview, James Cameron even stated that
I'm not arguing the factual merits of your claims, but I'd like to remind you that what showbiz people say in interviews can be pure utter bullshit designed to enhance shareholder value. They'll tell you they're very faithful to the source material, they'll tell you their tech is revolutionary, they'll say ANYTHING to get you to fork over some money. Anything. Grains of salt are mandatory.
And what's ironic about rain on your wedding day?
It's like a thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.
I wonder if the latest vlc can play it?
I doubt it, VLC can't handle Disney DRM, not since Wall-E (Pixar is the only Disney content I encounter on DVD). I have to load up a different player when I want to watch Up. Annoying.
So this insaner DRM probably hits the same wall.
Whatever can you mean? How could you not love "Dances with Smurfs"?
Stop trash talking Ferngully In Space. Sure, it was Pocahontas with Mechas, but hey! Everyone loves the last alien Samurai.
the usa has long been a world leader in hypocritical simplistic moralizing "christians"
don't be nosing in on our turf and our monopoly now
It's not turf nosing, it's a franchise. They have one in Canada too!
ultra conservatives (not in the good way
Well, that begs the question: What good way?!
Wouldn't the cost of returning the robot to earth far exceed the cost of simply building a new one? I thought the whole point of using automatons for exploration was that you could leave them there!
Do you have any idea the kind of poon you can score when you show up at a club with a space robot that went to the moon?
This is good development, to be sure... but I think TFA exaggerates by saying that the device can be so thin that it can be placed on a windshield.
Yeah, I don't know what's up with the car angle. I see what they did and I think "night vision goggles that are just goggles! Finally!" (as opposed to the bulky getup currently available).
Someone once said, "If you skate close to the edge of the ice, you're likely to fall in,"
I'd be more worried to fall through than to fall over... but "fall in" covers both. Interesting.
The usual rough figure for PV solar to provide for current US electricity consumption is about 10,000 square miles of Southwestern desert -- a square 100 miles on a side. Of course, you'd also need enormous changes in the national transmission grid, and you'd have to find places to store a bunch of the daytime production for use at night (lots of pumped hydro storage located around the country might work for that).
I think it would be better to distribute the capabilities than it is to have them concentrated in one disaster-ready site. Like how the darpa net was designed to route around damage. That way when the inevitable earthquake/tornado/asteroid/human-error lays waste to a few thousand square miles of desert or that one reservoir, life goes on elsewhere.
How about distributing the power storage to smaller, less distant sites with cuckoo clock technology? Weights on chains for domestic use, and I suppose water silos could do for city hydro. Come to think of it, we could spread the new-york look and have water towers on every building, for storing water/energy. With another holding tank in the basement, for transfers. When you look at satellite images of cities, it's usually a big gray patch, I say we need to put that roof real-estate to better use than beds of gravel.
It never fails to astound me when Men of God not only want to live their own lives by their code of conduct, but they want me to live that way, also.
Why would it astound you? That's the ENTIRE POINT of inventing gods: To get people to obey you, as the emissary of those absent authority figures.
And remember: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
one of the main problems with the institution these days: it's deeply, utterly, incompatible with any notions of democracy
Rapidly reproducing groups with a central decision-making, top-down authority structure are VERY compatible with democracy: Lots of votes, all toeing the line.
FTFA:
It turned out that while most of the programming and mission planning had been done in units of measurement from the Imperial system used in the US, the software to control the orbiter's thrusters had been written with units of measurement from the metric system.
And that is WRONG! It was the software that had the archaic units, and the rest of the spaceship was built with international units.
The software was working in pounds force, while the spacecraft expected figures in newtons; 1 pound force equals approximately 4.45 newtons.
The software had been adapted from use on the earlier Mars Climate Orbiter, and was not adequately tested before launch.
I did not read the rest of that article, since they're not fact-checking their mocking of people's inability to double-check things.
I think this country gets enough things right that I'm comfortable in not just saying 'yay America' but 'fuck yeah'.
You should write to your government representative about having the national anthem replaced/updated with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI :)
You missed the point - why would you put REAL personal information in a security question?
No, you missed the point: "Jane Doe has posted something on your wall: Hi son, how was the reunion at Elemental Elementary?"
You put real information in there?
It's a network of real people.
How long until identity thieves, 419 scammers & spammers create software that can
trawl sites like facebook for useful info?
Seriously, what are they going to find that will be so useful?
Mother's maiden name and other answers to common security questions.
seriously warrants armed rebellion against the government.
That would make for an interesting newsday. Lots of filmed explosions that would both shock and awe the audience, the ratings will be phenomenal. And then business as usual so the news can milk those targeted strikes for all they're worth.
The government does not have the power to arbitrarily deny rights just because it suits their purposes to do so. That is a key difference between the US government and most governments of the past (and even many of the present).
Super insightful post, but you misspelled "theoretically" there at the end. Sorry to nitpick on what I assume to be some hilarious spellcheck glitch.
Or, without the sarcasm:
You forgot the constitutional joker: Interstate Commerce. That sucker lets you do ANYTHING.
Example: Interstate commercial air travel is a kind of interstate commerce, so they get to make any rule they want, yay! Or... Say you don't want sick people growing pot in their house and smoking it there? Interstate commerce will give you an excuse to take those suffering folk and really fuck up their lives, just because! Though I guess that trick only works if you have soulless monsters in the supreme court. Like that guy that laughs when he says that torture is not punishment, he's a really horrible person, and he's got tons of power.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that on paper your government doesn't have that power, but in practice they actually do arbitrarily deny rights just because it suits their purposes, and they do it on a daily basis. Lets just be happy we can still bitch about it on the internet.
so neither Ann nor these guys are allowed to say "someone should go and kill that person" like they do,
<citation required>
I don't know who "these guys" are, but I've read every one of Anne Coulter's books and many of her columns, and I have yet to see her say "someone should go kill that person".
RTFA, those guys.
Coulter: Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
Just because they say they are Christian, DOES make them Christian.
Well then: I say I'm the great dragon wizard leader of the KKK, and I say no one in the KKK is a Christian.
And just because I say so, that makes it so.
Now I say I'm just a geek again, and my saying-it's-so power makes it so. Good thing, too. That hat was really restricting my vision.
I don't know if you've ever read Terry Pratchett novels, but a recurring joke is when the police investigate a death and classify it as suicide instead of murder - because the person did something provocative that would obviously lead to murder.
I love Pratchett but that joke is much older than he is.
We don't exactly help the situation when we have Western countries that outlaw hate speech (e.g. Canada, which recently threatened Anne Coulter when she was going to speak at a university).
That law says you can't incite violence, so neither Ann nor these guys are allowed to say "someone should go and kill that person" like they do, pretending they didn't mean to actually say what they actually said.
In Canada, if someone makes fun of your prophet and/or economic model, you're allowed to say you're angry, you're allowed to make fun of them right back in their face, but you're not allowed to say "boy it would sure please our god is someone went and killed them, I'm not threatening them, but someone should really go at this address, and someone should really hurt them. This is another address where they might be. Divine will is that these people come to harm from the hand of a believer. No threat, just innocently naming names and places, and reminding people that they can be sure to go to heaven if they kill these people."
Banning this isn't the great threat to free speech you make it out to be.
BTW, it's also specifically illegal to murder someone by causing them to have a heart attack in Canada. Crazy, eh?