Ah, good old Gutenberg, the German man who invented the printing press. I believe he was made Man of the Millenium in 2000. Not bad for a guy whos been dead for a few hundred years. The Library of Congress has a Gutenberg Bible on display (the Bible being, of course, the first book made with a printing press.)
And while we're discussing the speech recognition for books, it wouldn't make sense for poetry, which uses alternate spellings sometimes. It also wouldn't make sense for at least one work that I can think of - Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, which is already up there. When Alice first looks at the poem Jabberwocky, it's backwards. Try saying that backwards faster than you can type it!
Now I really can't wait to go to college - now I've decided to get a degree in biochemistry so I can learn how to grow beef from a Petri dish.
However, questions do abound:
Will the meat taste fresh after you grow it or will it be like the steak in the store that's at the bottom of the pile that's been sitting in there for months freezerburned?
Will it be lightweight before its growth and how fast will it grow?
I'm impressed that you can see subatomic particles. The reason you posted as an Anonymous Coward is because you don't want your identity revealed as...
How can you have a high-speed film of electrons? We don't know what an atom looks like - what we have is simply theory and we've never actually seen an atom.
However, it IS commonly accepted that an electron moves so fast you'd never see it. (I guess you can stare at a blank piece of paper and call it a high-speed film of an atom without the nucleus.)
There's also a little something called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which tells us that we tell the velocity and position of an electron stimulentaneously.
Kind of hard to make a film of anything without being able to express the velocity and position, eh?
I can see how they invented this one. It all started at a company party, where a bunch of Star Wars fans watched on, plastered, and decided that instead of themselves getting up to the cooler, they needed 'that goddamn robot over there' to get it.
Of course, we must remember that the guys that built the trebuchet big enough to hurl the Buick 200 yards also came up with their brilliant idea while hammered too.
The sabers need special materials for them. The Obi-Wan saber needed a rare British grenade, a shower head, and a few other materials. All the other ones (from the original movies, at least) need camera attachments for flashbulbs, with wiper blades and little electronic bits attached, for the most part. The camera attachments are reasonably expensive now, and are moderately rare.
So how did this guy find all the rare goodies to make all these things to become a millionaire off of them? He must have been awfully rich to begin with.
Notice: Before reading this, please bear in mind that I am practically shooting my karma like a fish in a barrel by taking the time to reason with our friend, the Anonymous Coward that I'm replying to. If you don't want to have your time wasted because you wouldn't post anything like the comment above, please skip this and move on. Thank you.
Besides the fact that you're going to be modded down so much for this that you'll hit the karma floor (as opposed to the karma ceiling), here's a few pointers.
First, be very happy that you don't have a Slashdot name, or at least that you're not using it at the moment. This would be known as "karmic suicide."
Please refrain from being a whiny idiot on any stories comment board.
Please refrain from being stupid, i.e., making the same mistake not once, not twice, but three times. Also, if it only takes you twenty seconds to type, this whole capade took you a total of one minute. Wow. Big cause for alarm.
Please refrain from using my favorite word more than necessary. It loses all of its almighty power when people constantly use it.
Please refrain from wasting my time by posting bull$#!# like this.
And finally, please refrain from visiting Slashdot.org if you're so p!$$ed off.
Rather than constantly cranking your phone to get power (rather like that really annoying flashlight), why not make a round phone and rather than crank it, have an internal crack attached to a string - the Yo-Yo Phone!
Play with it for a while, make a few calls, and play again to recharge.
And if you can do a sleeper for more than five minutes, you get a discount on your monthly phone bill. "Walking the dog" with it will gain you bonus minutes as well.
American and international bands play a reasonably big role in German music, though not as much as it is here. However, local bands aren't that influential, as German pop stars such as Herbert Grönemeyer and Die Prinzen continue to stay on the pop charts continously as they have been for a while.
My case against this presented idea is that authors have been doing business less than the music industry.
Case in point: In the 15th century, such composers such as Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel became huge as composers, the musical "rock stars" of the time and their names are still well known. However, how many of you can think of an author from the 1600's? Even the classical literature section of About.com (which says it includes the 15th century) couldn't come up with any 15th century literature, much less well-known authors. Now check for 1600's composers/music at the same site here and note it's in a much more constrained time period and doesn't even include such names as Vivaldi.
So this might be a little far back to be considered a valid point. Then take, for instance, the fact that the newest Weezer album, Maladroit, is currently #3 on the Billboard chart even though every song on the album has been free to the public since two to three months before its release. And they're still becoming rich off of concert and album revenue.
I was interrupted by a reporter for the Russian language programs of the BBC World Service, who saw me taking notes for this review in front of the PDP-1, and after I told him a little about the history of Space War and the like, he recorded an audio interview with about my impressions of the exhibition. Thus, the people of Moscow may be hearing my thoughts translated into Russian.
Geek rebellion in Russia
MOSCOW, Russia - The geeks of Russia, Atari controllers in hand, black rimmed glasses on their face, are presently chanting "ÌÛ ÕÎÒÅÒÜ SLASH-DOT" (which translates to "We want 'Slash-Dot'" in Russian)* outside of the President's home early yesterday morning. They seemed angry, holding up signs with the symbol "/." on them. President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin watched from the windows, unsure of what to do. He phoned President Bush about the matter as a counsel.
Bush promised to send the commander right for the job. Putin asked why he was sending only a lone commander instead of a general and an army. Bush replied that he only needed a single commander to give the people what they wanted, that being Slashdot, and that soldier was Commander Taco.
Interviewers spoke with some of the geeks. One of them told the Associated Press that "we demand a nerdy website that will tell us all about video game conventions. We Russian nerds also need an inside source!" Confusion still reigns, wondering whether the "source" meant SourceForge or Slashdot.
--Associated Press
*I do not speak Russian - this is a horrible translation as near as I can figure out as I picked the first word off of a very bad English-Russian translator site when I typed in "we" and "want". For all those who are Russian or speak it, please do not be offended or laugh at me. Well, laugh at the comment. Not at me. Meanieheads.
For those of you Slashdotters reading this and wondering how you control a group of viruses and make sure that they don't run rampant, you might be interested in this article on a DNA computer. The software, hardware, everything is made of biological material.
Simply use the virus's DNA as part of the computer and manipulate it to do whatever you want. It's small and effective, as far as I can see.
Marketing possibilities are also opening up. Can't you just envision Intel start making these viruses and/or DNA computers, show someone swallowing a test tube full of 'em on a commercial, and have him wear a shirt, "Intel Inside"? Horrible humour, I know, but so was a lot of the Blue Man Group commercials after the first two.
When you send your resume to a company named after a Norse god that was condemed to sit chained to a rock while a serpent dripped it's acidic venom on him, and you're hired... don't expect the best for the future.
Learn your mythology. It'll help you in the long run.
The U.S. government, or the United Nations, or some international governmental system, should set up something for general media and electronic systems like the W3C is for the Web.
Yes, sick and twisted. I suggested that mass media should be regulated by a bunch of old white guys from different countries that don't know a transistor from a cockroach up their ass.
No, on a serious note, they (mostly likely the UN, since this stuff is worldwide) should hire the top people in mass media that don't have any specific company affiliations after they're hired, to regulate all the stuff, send it to the companys, and have the UN make sure all the countries are making sure that everything is going as scheduled.
Which sounds like communism, government regulating business, but the business owners might think twice before saying 'no'... if everything is regulation, than people don't have to think twice before buying their products.
Or we should just get Slashdot readers to do the same thing...
First of all, they're definitely putting a lot into one channel at once. They're going to be cutting a lot of ratings-grabbers. And with all this stuff, I have a nagging feeling in the back of my head that the show that has fed me my energy for the past year or two will be gone...
SCOOBY-DOO.
I know I sound like an idiot, since it's such a big hit, but it's one of the last old-school programs left on CN. Looney Tunes is the only other big old-school cartoon on there, but it's dwindling in how much airtime it gets. Scooby is too, especially since they gave some Scooby time to WB (which sucks, because they cram so many commercials in).
Scooby-Doo is likely to be the last holdout with Looney Tunes, finally being abolished back to Boomerang. However, very few people get Boomerang. To solve this solution, I still think CN should separate into three different entities and make them all as availible as CN - in fact, they should all be availible as a package for the same price, or just slightly more. Here are my ideas for the separation, found under the last CN story a few days ago...
Maybe I'm paranoid over Scooby's possibly leaving, but if you've noticed all the CN changes over the past year or two, you should be afraid too...
Here are some simple guidelines to follow when chasing the tornado.
Go straight into the tornado. The closer the shot, the better it will look. Don't worry if you drop the camera - you'll be able to find it within a 20-mile radius, and the tape will be safely housed in the camcorder.
If you are in a plane trying to get a really interesting shot, try to get as close as you can and then fly somewhat low for a very cool effect that very few manage to get. Shots like that are extremely rare.
If you're a true pansy, go home and rig up some pantyhose to a large tube with a motor and send it a-spinning, then videorecord it with a cheap black-and-white recorder. If moviegoers from the past 50-60 years have fallen for it in The Wizard of Oz, the meteorologists won't know the difference.
Thank me later when you make millions off of my hard work and dedication.
A friend and I were just discussing Cartoon Network's current juggling act of all the material everyone wants to see, especially us not getting our fix of old-school cartoons. They should split into three different channels:
TOONAMI: The current anime lineup, as well as stuff for "more mature audiences" later for the hardcore adult animers (or some undersexed, anime-hooked nerds like those who will read this reply, and therefore will mod it down, wrecking my karma. Meanies.)
CARTOON CARTOON: Move all those goddamn annoying "Cartoon Cartoons" to this network. You know, stuff like Cow and Chicken and Sheep in the Big City. Some of it is good, but a select minority. Most of it is trash, but it brings in ratings from the little ones.
OLD SCHOOL CARTOON NETWORK: My favorite. Scooby-Doo (all sans Scrappy), Hong Kong Phooey, Superfriends, Wacky Racers, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Pink Panther, Snagglepuss, Huckleberry Hound, and all the good old stuff that I miss.
Divide and conquer, Cartoon Network, by heeding the call of the wild Eddy Johnson!
According to an article on howstuffworks.com, to teleport a person with current teleportation technology (it replicates the ion and destroys the original), you'd have to die in order to be teleported. Since it also would transport everything to electrical signals, that clone would have all of your memories and everything, but it wouldn't be you.
Well, they may have found 42 new candidates for planets in a little over a month, but could they explore countless proven strange new worlds in one five-year mission?
That's right, I didn't think so. Wimpy astronomers.
The opening sequence of Star Trek II has them only enter the Klingon Neutral Zone, they don't go into Klingon space. However, either party going into the neutral zone is looked at as an act of war by the other party.
Triple WHAM, followed up with a BAM, with the exquisite THANK YOU MAM ending.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah, good old Gutenberg, the German man who invented the printing press. I believe he was made Man of the Millenium in 2000. Not bad for a guy whos been dead for a few hundred years. The Library of Congress has a Gutenberg Bible on display (the Bible being, of course, the first book made with a printing press.)
And while we're discussing the speech recognition for books, it wouldn't make sense for poetry, which uses alternate spellings sometimes. It also wouldn't make sense for at least one work that I can think of - Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, which is already up there. When Alice first looks at the poem Jabberwocky, it's backwards. Try saying that backwards faster than you can type it!
However, questions do abound:
I'm impressed that you can see subatomic particles. The reason you posted as an Anonymous Coward is because you don't want your identity revealed as...
SUPERMAN!
Da-da-daaa-da-da-da-daa-da-daaaa!
How can you have a high-speed film of electrons? We don't know what an atom looks like - what we have is simply theory and we've never actually seen an atom.
However, it IS commonly accepted that an electron moves so fast you'd never see it. (I guess you can stare at a blank piece of paper and call it a high-speed film of an atom without the nucleus.)
There's also a little something called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which tells us that we tell the velocity and position of an electron stimulentaneously.
Kind of hard to make a film of anything without being able to express the velocity and position, eh?
I can see how they invented this one. It all started at a company party, where a bunch of Star Wars fans watched on, plastered, and decided that instead of themselves getting up to the cooler, they needed 'that goddamn robot over there' to get it.
Of course, we must remember that the guys that built the trebuchet big enough to hurl the Buick 200 yards also came up with their brilliant idea while hammered too.
What alcohol can do.
The sabers need special materials for them. The Obi-Wan saber needed a rare British grenade, a shower head, and a few other materials. All the other ones (from the original movies, at least) need camera attachments for flashbulbs, with wiper blades and little electronic bits attached, for the most part. The camera attachments are reasonably expensive now, and are moderately rare.
So how did this guy find all the rare goodies to make all these things to become a millionaire off of them? He must have been awfully rich to begin with.
Besides the fact that you're going to be modded down so much for this that you'll hit the karma floor (as opposed to the karma ceiling), here's a few pointers.
- First, be very happy that you don't have a Slashdot name, or at least that you're not using it at the moment. This would be known as "karmic suicide."
- Please refrain from being a whiny idiot on any stories comment board.
- Please refrain from being stupid, i.e., making the same mistake not once, not twice, but three times. Also, if it only takes you twenty seconds to type, this whole capade took you a total of one minute. Wow. Big cause for alarm.
- Please refrain from using my favorite word more than necessary. It loses all of its almighty power when people constantly use it.
- Please refrain from wasting my time by posting bull$#!# like this.
- And finally, please refrain from visiting Slashdot.org if you're so p!$$ed off.
Thank you and have a nice day.Rather than constantly cranking your phone to get power (rather like that really annoying flashlight), why not make a round phone and rather than crank it, have an internal crack attached to a string - the Yo-Yo Phone!
Play with it for a while, make a few calls, and play again to recharge.
And if you can do a sleeper for more than five minutes, you get a discount on your monthly phone bill. "Walking the dog" with it will gain you bonus minutes as well.
American and international bands play a reasonably big role in German music, though not as much as it is here. However, local bands aren't that influential, as German pop stars such as Herbert Grönemeyer and Die Prinzen continue to stay on the pop charts continously as they have been for a while.
My case against this presented idea is that authors have been doing business less than the music industry.
Case in point: In the 15th century, such composers such as Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel became huge as composers, the musical "rock stars" of the time and their names are still well known. However, how many of you can think of an author from the 1600's? Even the classical literature section of About.com (which says it includes the 15th century) couldn't come up with any 15th century literature, much less well-known authors. Now check for 1600's composers/music at the same site here and note it's in a much more constrained time period and doesn't even include such names as Vivaldi.
So this might be a little far back to be considered a valid point. Then take, for instance, the fact that the newest Weezer album, Maladroit, is currently #3 on the Billboard chart even though every song on the album has been free to the public since two to three months before its release. And they're still becoming rich off of concert and album revenue.
Just a few thoughts...
I was interrupted by a reporter for the Russian language programs of the BBC World Service, who saw me taking notes for this review in front of the PDP-1, and after I told him a little about the history of Space War and the like, he recorded an audio interview with about my impressions of the exhibition. Thus, the people of Moscow may be hearing my thoughts translated into Russian.
Geek rebellion in Russia
MOSCOW, Russia - The geeks of Russia, Atari controllers in hand, black rimmed glasses on their face, are presently chanting "ÌÛ ÕÎÒÅÒÜ SLASH-DOT" (which translates to "We want 'Slash-Dot'" in Russian)* outside of the President's home early yesterday morning. They seemed angry, holding up signs with the symbol "/." on them. President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin watched from the windows, unsure of what to do. He phoned President Bush about the matter as a counsel.
Bush promised to send the commander right for the job. Putin asked why he was sending only a lone commander instead of a general and an army. Bush replied that he only needed a single commander to give the people what they wanted, that being Slashdot, and that soldier was Commander Taco.
Interviewers spoke with some of the geeks. One of them told the Associated Press that "we demand a nerdy website that will tell us all about video game conventions. We Russian nerds also need an inside source!" Confusion still reigns, wondering whether the "source" meant SourceForge or Slashdot.
--Associated Press
*I do not speak Russian - this is a horrible translation as near as I can figure out as I picked the first word off of a very bad English-Russian translator site when I typed in "we" and "want". For all those who are Russian or speak it, please do not be offended or laugh at me. Well, laugh at the comment. Not at me. Meanieheads.
"Ribbitribbitribbitribbitribbitribbitribbitribbitr ibbitribbitribbitribbitribbit..."
One might think they've got a Hawaiian Frog techno mix running on repeat on the beaches.
For those of you Slashdotters reading this and wondering how you control a group of viruses and make sure that they don't run rampant, you might be interested in this article on a DNA computer. The software, hardware, everything is made of biological material.
Simply use the virus's DNA as part of the computer and manipulate it to do whatever you want. It's small and effective, as far as I can see.
Marketing possibilities are also opening up. Can't you just envision Intel start making these viruses and/or DNA computers, show someone swallowing a test tube full of 'em on a commercial, and have him wear a shirt, "Intel Inside"? Horrible humour, I know, but so was a lot of the Blue Man Group commercials after the first two.
Everyone's favorite ISP, AOL, has just released a press release that they are switching to Game Boy Advances for their servers.
According to the press release, it will increase server output by 300%.
Oh yeah!
When you send your resume to a company named after a Norse god that was condemed to sit chained to a rock while a serpent dripped it's acidic venom on him, and you're hired... don't expect the best for the future.
Learn your mythology. It'll help you in the long run.
The U.S. government, or the United Nations, or some international governmental system, should set up something for general media and electronic systems like the W3C is for the Web.
Yes, sick and twisted. I suggested that mass media should be regulated by a bunch of old white guys from different countries that don't know a transistor from a cockroach up their ass.
No, on a serious note, they (mostly likely the UN, since this stuff is worldwide) should hire the top people in mass media that don't have any specific company affiliations after they're hired, to regulate all the stuff, send it to the companys, and have the UN make sure all the countries are making sure that everything is going as scheduled.
Which sounds like communism, government regulating business, but the business owners might think twice before saying 'no'... if everything is regulation, than people don't have to think twice before buying their products.
Or we should just get Slashdot readers to do the same thing...
First of all, they're definitely putting a lot into one channel at once. They're going to be cutting a lot of ratings-grabbers. And with all this stuff, I have a nagging feeling in the back of my head that the show that has fed me my energy for the past year or two will be gone...
SCOOBY-DOO.
I know I sound like an idiot, since it's such a big hit, but it's one of the last old-school programs left on CN. Looney Tunes is the only other big old-school cartoon on there, but it's dwindling in how much airtime it gets. Scooby is too, especially since they gave some Scooby time to WB (which sucks, because they cram so many commercials in).
Scooby-Doo is likely to be the last holdout with Looney Tunes, finally being abolished back to Boomerang. However, very few people get Boomerang. To solve this solution, I still think CN should separate into three different entities and make them all as availible as CN - in fact, they should all be availible as a package for the same price, or just slightly more. Here are my ideas for the separation, found under the last CN story a few days ago...
Maybe I'm paranoid over Scooby's possibly leaving, but if you've noticed all the CN changes over the past year or two, you should be afraid too...
Thank me later when you make millions off of my hard work and dedication.
A friend and I were just discussing Cartoon Network's current juggling act of all the material everyone wants to see, especially us not getting our fix of old-school cartoons. They should split into three different channels:
TOONAMI: The current anime lineup, as well as stuff for "more mature audiences" later for the hardcore adult animers (or some undersexed, anime-hooked nerds like those who will read this reply, and therefore will mod it down, wrecking my karma. Meanies.)
CARTOON CARTOON: Move all those goddamn annoying "Cartoon Cartoons" to this network. You know, stuff like Cow and Chicken and Sheep in the Big City. Some of it is good, but a select minority. Most of it is trash, but it brings in ratings from the little ones.
OLD SCHOOL CARTOON NETWORK: My favorite. Scooby-Doo (all sans Scrappy), Hong Kong Phooey, Superfriends, Wacky Racers, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Pink Panther, Snagglepuss, Huckleberry Hound, and all the good old stuff that I miss.
Divide and conquer, Cartoon Network, by heeding the call of the wild Eddy Johnson!
According to an article on howstuffworks.com, to teleport a person with current teleportation technology (it replicates the ion and destroys the original), you'd have to die in order to be teleported. Since it also would transport everything to electrical signals, that clone would have all of your memories and everything, but it wouldn't be you.
I'll take the shuttle, thanks.
Well, they may have found 42 new candidates for planets in a little over a month, but could they explore countless proven strange new worlds in one five-year mission?
That's right, I didn't think so. Wimpy astronomers.
The opening sequence of Star Trek II has them only enter the Klingon Neutral Zone, they don't go into Klingon space. However, either party going into the neutral zone is looked at as an act of war by the other party.
Triple WHAM, followed up with a BAM, with the exquisite THANK YOU MAM ending.
Booyah!
Heh. No, I just need it for math class.
And I have a girlfriend, so kiss my non-pimply ass.
:-P
First of all, that happens in Star Trek V, where Klaa (I think) whacks it for target practice. (By this time, I doubt we're still contacting it.)
Secondly, the Neutral Zone is between the Federation and the Romulans, not the Federation and the Klingons.
Wham.