You won't see ads on Mir, but anyone ever see edTV? There could be broadcasts from Mir, and advertisers could pay to have a banner ad on the screen somewhere during the broadcast. kinda like an orbital jenny cam?
Wal-Mart, the most technologically advanced (or at least that's what they keep telling us) retailer on the face of the planet, uses *NIX on all of it's systems, including POS and inventory and accounting. There are 2 NT boxes in the back office...but i don't know what they use them for, nor do i particularly care. So, yeah, the software *is* out there...someone has tread this path before, so how difficult can it be to follow?;)
PBS already has made a documentary...the exact title escapes me at the moment, but it is something along the lines of Revenge of the nerds...something playing off that...i think...maybe not. But it's there, and it's pretty interesting. Starts out talking about Xerox PARC and IBM and the cultures at those places and then gets into hobby computers like altair and the Apple I and whatnot. Worth seeing...maybe worth calling your local PBS station and requesting...
[Thanks Mr. Malda for the preview button. This comment went from a violent flame to something else.:)] I found no actual sources in this article. Was this published in the opinion column? Furthermore, the author seems quite unaware as to the location of this *Dark Net*. If he can't seem to find it, how does he know it exists? I am certainly glad tho, that he finally explained why i cannot seem to download my favorite MP3's...it's the man...keepin me down...;) Darn those spinless ISP's!!!:) jk. btw, i found the dark net! [tex]
set your fears aside. First, the most obvious response:
the littleton boys had been planning their little romp for over a year. I don't think that they would have just gone to see the matrix and then suddenly decided, "Hey, kewl, let's go get some coats and guns and shoot the place up."
Second point. I really don't buy into this idea that hollywood is responsible for violence in this country. In fact...uh-oh, here begins the RANT!:)
...it seems to me that the only person responsible for actions is the person performing the action. You *should* consider consequences. You *should* consider morality. You *should* consider impact on other people's lives, and viloations of their personal liberties and rights. But then, rarely are these things considered. [I base this conclusion on the concept that most people, having considered the outcome of entering a high school and shooting the place up, only to commit suicide, would have no practical gain to anyone. A lack of point can sometime be a decent deterrent.]
The biggest problem I have with this whole thing is the victimization of the perpetrators. It seems that everytime someone does something boneheaded and gets caught, "It was the violent movies, they made me do it!", or "If it weren't for the ease of acquiring an illegal handgun in this country..." or some other drivel about how it was everybody's fault but my own. Take some responsibility. Learn to admit when you are wrong. Suck it up and take it like a man.
While you raise some interesting points, your logic is flawed. However, as this does not interest me, i will not go into it. Rather i will clarify the computer/brain model a bit, as you do not seem to entirely understand it. But first, a disclaimer...;)
I know very little about the brain. I know lot's about computers (i think). I can draw parallels between the rwo based on what i have read. That is what follows.
Think of basic actions (respiration and all that jazz) as functions controlled by some ROM BIOS. memory can be put into two classes, temporary (short term) and permanent (long term) which would be analogous to RAM and some permanent media (a disk or magnetic tape). Thus, the RAM is overwritten as needed and this is why we don't remember everything...however the really important stuff from RAM is written to the disk...and thus we can recall it when so prompted. Also, i think this anology works well with deja vu. You have some experience (seeing a particular object that you have never seen before) and your brain quickly searches long term for a comparison or pertinent information, but some glitch causes it to access short term instead, where the image is stored (for processing purposes). Thus the brain thinks it is in long term, but is actually in short term, and relates the information back as if you had seen this thing before. Confusing.
>This neatly solves the problem of "When the >universe contracts, won't things get hotter and >thus violate the law of thermodynamics?" No, >because a contracting universe loses energy >bacause objects get closer together
but then the question still remains from yesterdays discussion on the age of the universe, if the universe is truly a "uni"verse, and there is nothing beyond the boundary that defines it, where would all of the energy escape to as the universe contracted?
the question is, what is the escape velocity required to leave the universe? That's what i have always wondered This must be an infinitely large value, as there is a finite amount of matter/energy in the universe. Thus, either the net flux of *stuff* is zero, or there simply is no flux.
On the other hand...they say the universe is cooling, so where does all that energy go...?
this is really begininning to stray from topic but...
you can fire again without reloading with a manual action weapon...as long as it is not some sort of single shot weapon.
Semi-automatic simply prepares the weapon to be fired using energy from the previous firing. Fully automatic allows the trigger to be depressed, with continuous ammunition expenditure, until the trigger is released.
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You won't see ads on Mir, but anyone ever see edTV? There could be broadcasts from Mir, and advertisers could pay to have a banner ad on the screen somewhere during the broadcast. kinda like an orbital jenny cam?
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...we'd be as openly fascistic as China.
Uhhh, isn't china communist?
Wal-Mart, the most technologically advanced (or at least that's what they keep telling us) retailer on the face of the planet, uses *NIX on all of it's systems, including POS and inventory and accounting. There are 2 NT boxes in the back office...but i don't know what they use them for, nor do i particularly care. So, yeah, the software *is* out there...someone has tread this path before, so how difficult can it be to follow? ;)
PBS already has made a documentary...the exact title escapes me at the moment, but it is something along the lines of Revenge of the nerds...something playing off that...i think...maybe not. But it's there, and it's pretty interesting. Starts out talking about Xerox PARC and IBM and the cultures at those places and then gets into hobby computers like altair and the Apple I and whatnot. Worth seeing...maybe worth calling your local PBS station and requesting...
[tex]
i miss my Apple ][...oh yeah, first!
blast it all...disregard the above claim...
[Thanks Mr. Malda for the preview button. This comment went from a violent flame to something else. :)] I found no actual sources in this article. Was this published in the opinion column? Furthermore, the author seems quite unaware as to the location of this *Dark Net*. If he can't seem to find it, how does he know it exists? I am certainly glad tho, that he finally explained why i cannot seem to download my favorite MP3's...it's the man...keepin me down... ;) Darn those spinless ISP's!!! :) jk. btw, i found the dark net! [tex]
set your fears aside. First, the most obvious response:
;)
the littleton boys had been planning their little romp for over a year. I don't think that they would have just gone to see the matrix and then suddenly decided, "Hey, kewl, let's go get some coats and guns and shoot the place up."
Second point. I really don't buy into this idea that hollywood is responsible for violence in this country. In fact...uh-oh, here begins the RANT!:)
...it seems to me that the only person responsible for actions is the person performing the action. You *should* consider consequences. You *should* consider morality. You *should* consider impact on other people's lives, and viloations of their personal liberties and rights. But then, rarely are these things considered. [I base this conclusion on the concept that most people, having considered the outcome of entering a high school and shooting the place up, only to commit suicide, would have no practical gain to anyone. A lack of point can sometime be a decent deterrent.]
The biggest problem I have with this whole thing is the victimization of the perpetrators. It seems that everytime someone does something boneheaded and gets caught, "It was the violent movies, they made me do it!", or "If it weren't for the ease of acquiring an illegal handgun in this country..." or some other drivel about how it was everybody's fault but my own. Take some responsibility. Learn to admit when you are wrong. Suck it up and take it like a man.
Pardon the rant...I'll get off the soapbox now.
[tex]
>A true geek would only be impressed by the film's special effects
Okay, think about this for a second. A true geek? What is that? Must all geeks fit your mold and image?
I loved the film. Thought it was really killer.
While you raise some interesting points, your logic is flawed. However, as this does not interest me, i will not go into it. Rather i will clarify the computer/brain model a bit, as you do not seem to entirely understand it. But first, a disclaimer... ;)
I know very little about the brain. I know lot's about computers (i think). I can draw parallels between the rwo based on what i have read. That is what follows.
Think of basic actions (respiration and all that jazz) as functions controlled by some ROM BIOS. memory can be put into two classes, temporary (short term) and permanent (long term) which would be analogous to RAM and some permanent media (a disk or magnetic tape). Thus, the RAM is overwritten as needed and this is why we don't remember everything...however the really important stuff from RAM is written to the disk...and thus we can recall it when so prompted. Also, i think this anology works well with deja vu. You have some experience (seeing a particular object that you have never seen before) and your brain quickly searches long term for a comparison or pertinent information, but some glitch causes it to access short term instead, where the image is stored (for processing purposes). Thus the brain thinks it is in long term, but is actually in short term, and relates the information back as if you had seen this thing before. Confusing.
Just a thought.
>This neatly solves the problem of "When the
>universe contracts, won't things get hotter and
>thus violate the law of thermodynamics?" No,
>because a contracting universe loses energy
>bacause objects get closer together
but then the question still remains from yesterdays discussion on the age of the universe, if the universe is truly a "uni"verse, and there is nothing beyond the boundary that defines it, where would all of the energy escape to as the universe contracted?
the question is, what is the escape velocity required to leave the universe? That's what i have always wondered This must be an infinitely large value, as there is a finite amount of matter/energy in the universe. Thus, either the net flux of *stuff* is zero, or there simply is no flux.
On the other hand...they say the universe is cooling, so where does all that energy go...?
this is really begininning to stray from topic but...
;)
you can fire again without reloading with a manual action weapon...as long as it is not some sort of single shot weapon.
Semi-automatic simply prepares the weapon to be fired using energy from the previous firing. Fully automatic allows the trigger to be depressed, with continuous ammunition expenditure, until the trigger is released.
but yeah, don't miss the first time...