Yes, but when I set up my own custom home alarm system sometime soon, I won't want to pay a dumb alarm company. Barring some breakthrough in artificial intelligence, there is only one other way to know if the house is on fire or if the thermostat is just stuck. My central computer cellphone's me an image, and I confirm it... then it dials the fire department and and plays an automated message.
If it is some false alarm, I deny it, and I can wait til the evening is over to figure out why it went nuts.
Of course, you don't need the camera functionality so much as the image display and networking capabilties. Just saying though, there are cool things to be done with it.
Obviously a joke, and a not unfunny one... but damn. Can anyone here tell me honestly, that if they didn't know who Bill was, that he wouldn't be the *perfect* fit for the role? The look (well, you know, the standard costume and stage makeup and all, too), his voice... hell, even his mannerisms. Almost scary.
Not that simple. Also depends on how many shares they sell. I seem to remember some high-faluting company that has $10,000 per share prices... but there are only a few thousand shares of stock issued.
Would it make you feel better if they issued stock at $20 per share, but put 5 or 6 times as many into circulation?
So you're suggesting that not only do I isolate this from my body and important properties, but that I set up a camcorder to prudently record the expensive but satisfying entertainment? Fair enough, but whenwe get this on slashdot, you're going to have to mirror the mpeg too....
Someday computers are powerful enough, smart enough, that I could just render an entire movie myself in an afternoon or two, no actors? I give the computer broad outlines, it fills in details (maybe it comes up with a boner every once and awhile, so I bitch at it, "not like that!"). Think of all the movies that could be retold, so much better by the fanfic losers. I know, I know, 99.999% of them are retards, but even so, we could finally see something worth watching, and even worst case scenario, can it be any worse, any more laughable?
What if The Jedi council "removes" (though not necessarily assassinates) Anakin's mother? I mean, think of it as playing dirty in a custody dispute kind of thing. Anakin only learns of it as an adult... maybe they interfere, he never gets to speak to her before she dies. They could be all righteous, "we're doing it for the good of the universe, you'll be the most powerful, good Jedi ever" blahblahblah. Maybe they interfere with him and Amidala too... even in the first trilogy, they imply that he doesn't know he has children. We could do alot of things that are both plausible and would piss him off so much, make him hate so much, that Palpatine finds his opening to Anakin's heart. And we could even do it with a minimum of cheesiness. Cheesiness is for macaroni, not masterpiece movies. (Note: Anyone ever gets a chance to speak with Lucas, do me a favor and pass that bit of wisdom on, would you?)
We could have some intrigue, we could have more than a few factions (with the Jedi forced into the middle, like the guy trying to break up a barroom brawl) actually doing things. I mean damn. Even the UN isn't as worthless as the Galactic Senate, or whatever they call it. Instead of Jar-Jar and friends trying to save the planet, we can have interveners (who aren't hardly doing it out of the goodness of their hearts) saving Naboo. We could even add in real reasons the Trade Federation is doing the blockade, other than the Nabooian monopoly of the enviable Gungan demographic.
We could give Yoda the fight we really wanted to see. Instead of bouncing around like a toy you'd find outside of Kaybee's in the mall, Yoda hobbles up to the few dozen Sith, opens up his robe, and 4 or 5 hundred light-sabers fly out, all controlled by the force, spinning like sawmill blades and mowing down sith like wheat at the harvest. He doesn't even break a sweat. The Sith masters fighting to even stay alive, and maybe escape. Maybe the goddamn muppet can even have some doubts at the moral ambiguity that we'd paint into the Jedi picture. Maybe that's why he acts so silly in the first trilogy, he's an old man who can't bring himself to face what he has unleashed.
We can have more arms being chopped off.
The point is, that someday, we may actually be able to ignore garbage shoveled at us by pricks like lucas. So don't despair.
Obviously, they are avenging the reluctance of american consumers to buy into the entire merchandising gearup of TPM. My god, Lucas sold the entire fast food plastic cup rights to KFC/Pizza Hut, and those restaurants didn't see their marketshare or short-term revenue go up 100fold at all!. Fuck, they didn't even quadruple. What was wrong with people? Where were the ravening hordes of foaming at the mouth plastic cup collectors that just had to have 62 copies of the Jaba the Hut Anus cups (week 11)? Where were they? Were their basements full from all the collecting they did during the 70s and 80s? Unlikely. Besides, storage space is easily available, often for less than $200 a month for the 40' x 40' that the modest Star Wars fans require.
An Indy in his 60s would be what, the mid 1950s? You'd have him fighting commies, which are almost as evil as nazis. Soviet commies, not the laughable chinese ones. Besides, Harrison Ford is still cool, and there is nothing cooler than watching an old but weak hero outsmart the strong young guys. Done right, it has potential.
I get about 1000 visitors a month from a sig. Which is quite tolerable. I figure that even a non-frontpage story could give me that many visitors per minute for more than a few hours. That's what I'm worried about.
I haven't even tried to run the simulation yet, but on in an intersection with 3+ lanes, it would seem to me that you'd lane change all non-turning vehicles into the middle lane(s) and do the same cueing for right-hand turns pretty much normally. Maybe only a slightly larger gap, to give the turning car time to catch up with the cars going in his new direction. Left hand turns would need gaps that are slightly out of sync with each other, since they cross the first lane (as if they were simply crossing) but then turn. Other than that, same as right-hand turns. I don't think that either lane changing or turning is particularly more challenging than straight through. The real question, as everyone is pointing out, just what sorts of failure modes does this thing have, and does it allow for unmanaged vehicles and or obstacles.
Worse, how many retards will decide they can take it off autopilot, and how many people will they kill besides themselves?
Easily solved with controller computers for all stray dogs. The paranoid schizophrenic homeless person with the shopping cart already claims to be controlled by computers, so that's almost like free money when they plan the budget for this thing. As for flat tires and other problems that could make for catastrophe, that pays for itself too, since they've already got a deal inked with Fox for "When Traffic Control Computers Attack!"....
Gasoline isn't explosive unless vaporized. Catching on fire is a concern, but hell, actively cool the refueling station. But yeh. Even a failure could be quite the fireworks event.;)
If you have sigs turned off, you won't see my link. If you don't visit my link, you won't see the various addresses I've included, which would let you stop by for a chat at the various places I hang out on the net. If you don't chat, then I couldn't explain how there is all that much to install, to do the non-internet chatting thing. See where I'm going with this?
Your first answer sucked, and is wholly unnacceptable. The second one is better than I might have hoped, but only tolerable if my brain is deprived of oxygen for more than 2 minutes.
Private citizens are better than soulless corporations, and if we could all start off from scratch, it might work. In practice though, with your libertarian revolution, the same billionaires that own media companies indirectly would be forced to admit it, and buy them personally. Big deal, it doesn't fix anything, and even though they have to own up to it, those same billionaires could just buy it all up, with no checks on what they own. And you know what, they just might let the libertarians stay in power, assuming you allowed all that.
Like hell he flip-flopped. Hawking is a true man, in the same sense of the word as Davy Crockett ("Killed a bear when he was only 3"). This man has willpower and gonads, my friends. Who else but Hawking, a man that is almost completely paralyzed, would bet on such a purely intellectual thing as theoretical physics? But not just that... the wager he placed.
He said "If I am wrong about black holes, I will crawl over burning hot coals to reach a 5 gallon bucket of broken glass that I will *eat* while drinking lemon juice." I mean, goddamn.
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Yes, but when I set up my own custom home alarm system sometime soon, I won't want to pay a dumb alarm company. Barring some breakthrough in artificial intelligence, there is only one other way to know if the house is on fire or if the thermostat is just stuck. My central computer cellphone's me an image, and I confirm it... then it dials the fire department and and plays an automated message.
If it is some false alarm, I deny it, and I can wait til the evening is over to figure out why it went nuts.
Of course, you don't need the camera functionality so much as the image display and networking capabilties. Just saying though, there are cool things to be done with it.
Canvas? Try SVG, in a SVG aware browser. Not javascript accessible, rather ECMAscript accessible.
Why not help me build such a thing? Anyone not in the USA gets an automatic invitation... last person took all of 19 minutes to get connected.
;-)
Oh, anyone from the US that's interested needs to drop by my undernet channel, chances are someone would invite you.
gspot@fillmybox.com sounds like a porn webmaster email. No wonder he wants all these attachments.
I'll be able to pick up a cheap directivo!
Obviously a joke, and a not unfunny one... but damn. Can anyone here tell me honestly, that if they didn't know who Bill was, that he wouldn't be the *perfect* fit for the role? The look (well, you know, the standard costume and stage makeup and all, too), his voice... hell, even his mannerisms. Almost scary.
Not that simple. Also depends on how many shares they sell. I seem to remember some high-faluting company that has $10,000 per share prices... but there are only a few thousand shares of stock issued.
Would it make you feel better if they issued stock at $20 per share, but put 5 or 6 times as many into circulation?
I rackmounted my N64 over two years ago. What's the big deal?
You could try to help me...they'll still do the DMCA2, but maybe it won't matter as much.
So you're suggesting that not only do I isolate this from my body and important properties, but that I set up a camcorder to prudently record the expensive but satisfying entertainment? Fair enough, but whenwe get this on slashdot, you're going to have to mirror the mpeg too....
Someday computers are powerful enough, smart enough, that I could just render an entire movie myself in an afternoon or two, no actors? I give the computer broad outlines, it fills in details (maybe it comes up with a boner every once and awhile, so I bitch at it, "not like that!"). Think of all the movies that could be retold, so much better by the fanfic losers. I know, I know, 99.999% of them are retards, but even so, we could finally see something worth watching, and even worst case scenario, can it be any worse, any more laughable?
What if The Jedi council "removes" (though not necessarily assassinates) Anakin's mother? I mean, think of it as playing dirty in a custody dispute kind of thing. Anakin only learns of it as an adult... maybe they interfere, he never gets to speak to her before she dies. They could be all righteous, "we're doing it for the good of the universe, you'll be the most powerful, good Jedi ever" blahblahblah. Maybe they interfere with him and Amidala too... even in the first trilogy, they imply that he doesn't know he has children. We could do alot of things that are both plausible and would piss him off so much, make him hate so much, that Palpatine finds his opening to Anakin's heart. And we could even do it with a minimum of cheesiness. Cheesiness is for macaroni, not masterpiece movies. (Note: Anyone ever gets a chance to speak with Lucas, do me a favor and pass that bit of wisdom on, would you?)
We could have some intrigue, we could have more than a few factions (with the Jedi forced into the middle, like the guy trying to break up a barroom brawl) actually doing things. I mean damn. Even the UN isn't as worthless as the Galactic Senate, or whatever they call it. Instead of Jar-Jar and friends trying to save the planet, we can have interveners (who aren't hardly doing it out of the goodness of their hearts) saving Naboo. We could even add in real reasons the Trade Federation is doing the blockade, other than the Nabooian monopoly of the enviable Gungan demographic.
We could give Yoda the fight we really wanted to see. Instead of bouncing around like a toy you'd find outside of Kaybee's in the mall, Yoda hobbles up to the few dozen Sith, opens up his robe, and 4 or 5 hundred light-sabers fly out, all controlled by the force, spinning like sawmill blades and mowing down sith like wheat at the harvest. He doesn't even break a sweat. The Sith masters fighting to even stay alive, and maybe escape. Maybe the goddamn muppet can even have some doubts at the moral ambiguity that we'd paint into the Jedi picture. Maybe that's why he acts so silly in the first trilogy, he's an old man who can't bring himself to face what he has unleashed.
We can have more arms being chopped off.
The point is, that someday, we may actually be able to ignore garbage shoveled at us by pricks like lucas. So don't despair.
Obviously, they are avenging the reluctance of american consumers to buy into the entire merchandising gearup of TPM. My god, Lucas sold the entire fast food plastic cup rights to KFC/Pizza Hut, and those restaurants didn't see their marketshare or short-term revenue go up 100fold at all!. Fuck, they didn't even quadruple. What was wrong with people? Where were the ravening hordes of foaming at the mouth plastic cup collectors that just had to have 62 copies of the Jaba the Hut Anus cups (week 11)? Where were they? Were their basements full from all the collecting they did during the 70s and 80s? Unlikely. Besides, storage space is easily available, often for less than $200 a month for the 40' x 40' that the modest Star Wars fans require.
You people let George Lucas down. All of you.
An Indy in his 60s would be what, the mid 1950s? You'd have him fighting commies, which are almost as evil as nazis. Soviet commies, not the laughable chinese ones. Besides, Harrison Ford is still cool, and there is nothing cooler than watching an old but weak hero outsmart the strong young guys. Done right, it has potential.
I get about 1000 visitors a month from a sig. Which is quite tolerable. I figure that even a non-frontpage story could give me that many visitors per minute for more than a few hours. That's what I'm worried about.
I haven't even tried to run the simulation yet, but on in an intersection with 3+ lanes, it would seem to me that you'd lane change all non-turning vehicles into the middle lane(s) and do the same cueing for right-hand turns pretty much normally. Maybe only a slightly larger gap, to give the turning car time to catch up with the cars going in his new direction. Left hand turns would need gaps that are slightly out of sync with each other, since they cross the first lane (as if they were simply crossing) but then turn. Other than that, same as right-hand turns. I don't think that either lane changing or turning is particularly more challenging than straight through. The real question, as everyone is pointing out, just what sorts of failure modes does this thing have, and does it allow for unmanaged vehicles and or obstacles.
Worse, how many retards will decide they can take it off autopilot, and how many people will they kill besides themselves?
Easily solved with controller computers for all stray dogs. The paranoid schizophrenic homeless person with the shopping cart already claims to be controlled by computers, so that's almost like free money when they plan the budget for this thing. As for flat tires and other problems that could make for catastrophe, that pays for itself too, since they've already got a deal inked with Fox for "When Traffic Control Computers Attack!"....
Gasoline isn't explosive unless vaporized. Catching on fire is a concern, but hell, actively cool the refueling station. But yeh. Even a failure could be quite the fireworks event. ;)
Sad, since it's not a question of what "we'll do" but a question of what you, me, or the random stranger will want.
Since when did anyone care about gun rights? Even the ACLU ignore #2.
But as soon as they are accurate, we can just dispense with all this voting non-sense, and appoint them directly, right?
If you have sigs turned off, you won't see my link. If you don't visit my link, you won't see the various addresses I've included, which would let you stop by for a chat at the various places I hang out on the net. If you don't chat, then I couldn't explain how there is all that much to install, to do the non-internet chatting thing. See where I'm going with this?
Your first answer sucked, and is wholly unnacceptable. The second one is better than I might have hoped, but only tolerable if my brain is deprived of oxygen for more than 2 minutes.
Private citizens are better than soulless corporations, and if we could all start off from scratch, it might work. In practice though, with your libertarian revolution, the same billionaires that own media companies indirectly would be forced to admit it, and buy them personally. Big deal, it doesn't fix anything, and even though they have to own up to it, those same billionaires could just buy it all up, with no checks on what they own. And you know what, they just might let the libertarians stay in power, assuming you allowed all that.
Somewhere around -289.
How about an entirely new internet instead? Drop by and chat, eh?
Like hell he flip-flopped. Hawking is a true man, in the same sense of the word as Davy Crockett ("Killed a bear when he was only 3"). This man has willpower and gonads, my friends. Who else but Hawking, a man that is almost completely paralyzed, would bet on such a purely intellectual thing as theoretical physics? But not just that... the wager he placed.
He said "If I am wrong about black holes, I will crawl over burning hot coals to reach a 5 gallon bucket of broken glass that I will *eat* while drinking lemon juice." I mean, goddamn.