I would expect every time there's heavy rain, a bad wind storm, or a tornado, the system will likely go down. Literally. Or some yahoo with a rifle and too much time on his hands.
Wouldn't it be neat if there were an idiot savant who could figure protein folding in his head? What a research tool. I could see a science fiction story about a culture that did advanced biochemistry based on having people like that, maybe bred for the position. Of course, once they began breeding genetically-engineered Slashdot obsessive first-posters, the culture would inevitably collapse.
Since I discovered meth, I don't NEED melatonin. But I do need a new set of teeth. And I still write great code after being up for 96 hours straight, like the time I wrote most of Internet Explorer. Sometimes I make mistakes though when I fixate on the spiders on the ceiling and all those noises outside make me jumpy but nosirree I don't need sleep. I'm thirsty. Where's my Jolt?
A 'genius' may or may not have a truly high 'IQ' as measured by a standard IQ test, and yet be extraordinarily intelligent and considerably above the norm cognitively. Why? Because standard intelligence tests seek to identify level of ability to reason and to detect patterns, but they do not (yet) measure the entire set of vectors, because some forms of intelligence are related to handling very complex and deep patterns. For example, Richard Feynman is quoted as saying his IQ was measured at 125. That may be so, but it is pretty clear he was far smarter than the average person with a 125 IQ. So how did this failed measurement come about? Feynman had, and others have, certain abilities to spot and to synthesize connections in data that are deep and non-obvious. These data situations are non-trivial and complex; currently psychologists do not understand them and cannot create ways to test them. That is, if you do not understand even the existence of this kind of ability, you cannot directly test for it. Perhaps a psychologist can guess it is there by correlating its existence with the other traits commonly present when it is there, but oftentimes it is like deducing that a quark exists: you can never observe it directly, you can only infer it is present.
I think that genius can sense other genius, though. That is, if you have extraordinary abilities, because you internally understand that you can see things others can't, you often can spot that happening in other above-the-norm people. You can see that they are spotting patterns or making connections that are complex and difficult.
I believe that there are mutational abilities in some people that involve involve genuine physiological differences in the ability of their brains to deal with complex patterns. Such people can then have far-seeing intellectual vision. They can make the non-obvious connections.
By the way, this insight led me to develop Cerebro, in the hope of nurturing all mutantkind. Now if only this darned wheelchair were more comfortable, and I could stop Magneto, I'd be a very happy man.
The issue is a bit more complex. There is an atmospheric potential difference on objects relative to ground. That is, there is an electric field strength in the air that increases with height. I forgot if it's 200 volts per meter, or something like that. But you can demonstrate it with a wire suspended above ground and a high input resistance voltmeter. A tree is actually immersed in an EMF because of this. Being tall, there is a significant EMF difference between crown and roots. As the tree's inside cells contain water, it is a tall conductor (well, more like a resistor). Therefore there should be some division of the EMF depending on the place you tap the tree and measure to ground. You're not going to run motors from it, but the effect is real.
Stay tuned for final episode, "Simpsons Jump the Shark". Bart learns C# and goes to work for an insurance company, and likes it; Lisa becomes a meth head and ends her days toothless, reading Spinoza in a cardboard crate; Homer develops a donut food-allergy and takes a job selling propane somewhere in Texas; Maggie becomes a Scientologist and is adopted by Tom Cruise. Yeah, bet you didn't see that one coming.
In other news, hunters in the Ozarks report downing a weird huge bird. Said hunter Billy-Bob Lockjaw, "First time I ever shot a bird what screamed "%^#@% you!" at me on the way down. It were sure good eatin, but we haid to pluck a lot o rubbery stuff ofn it."
Microsoft Bob Mark II: I'm Microsoft InsuranceSalesBob. Have you ever thought about what would happen to your family if you were in an accident and couldn't earn a living?
Tank: No. I don't have a family. I don't even have a (censored). (pointing downward)
MISBII: (grabs Tank's hand and shakes it. Tank's hand falls off.) See? It could happen to anybody!
$ = (size of lie x price of product x number of suckers x number of PCs x number of years of great products) - (cost of legal defense + cost of penalties + cost of political contributions + cost of Bill's house + cost of Indian programming labor) + K,
where K = a factor I shall explain but you have to pay me first.
As it is, I already hate websites with pointless Flash animations and useless eye candy. If we go to 3D, and if interfaces start to get too busy to the point of creating motion sickness, I think we'll have gone too far. I don't want to have to fly a starfighter just to open a file, either. You know some designers will go overboard.
What would be useful is a way to truly see hierarchies of knowledge in a flexible way you could quickly traverse or filter using graphical commands. I hate to point at the movie 'Minority Report', but there you are.
Announcing -- the iPod Nixie! Thank you, Steve Jobs!! Now I can watch neon numerals while rollerskat.... ARRRGGHH (truck brakes squealing)... (silence)....(blink..flash..flash...)
Why a remake is necessary. Well... A producer, a director, and a writer survived a plane crash in the desert. They dragged themselves out of the wreckage and started slogging for civilization. There was no water for days. On the fourth day they came upon an oasis with a small pool. The producer got there first, unzipped, and urinated in the water. In shock, the writer protested "For god's sake, man, why did you do that?" The producer shrugged and said "I thought it needed a little something!"
THAT is why the Prisoner remake is not likely to be any good. It's endemic in the culture to take something good someone else created and made famous, badly clone it, and put one's own stamp on the clone to mark it as your creation. It's ego, stupidity, and the nature of the film power game that dictates it. They'll probably cast some rap singer as the lead, relocate things to some all-purpose Southern California desert, and have a blazing guns finale where the hero rescues Britney Spears from Dr. Evil then laughes heartily and freeze-frames, drinking a cola.
Oh, you laugh? Remember the FOX TV remake of Dr. Who? Where they had an LA street gang machine-gun Dr. Who to death? I have $50 that says ignorant bad taste has not gone out of style. Don't take my bet, it's a sucker bet.
Biologists now know that this was where pro wrestlers came from. See Nature magazine, Dec 2005, p435 "Prehistoric Smackdown Confirmed by Carbon-Dating".
I'm patenting a method for patenting something. I'll call it the 'one-click' method and sue everyone who tries to patent things without paying me a royalty. No wait. I'll patent a method for getting rich by sueing people who try to patent things without paying me a royalty. And then I'll set up the Dismal Prize at MIT for the most effective submarine patents, too... Any system that can be gamed this badly has to go.
Ghosts?? OHHH. I thought you said 'goats'. See, website...Goatsex...I'm NOT excited... Oh hell. Never mind. Ok, let's not go there. (Does this show up on my resume?)
Slashdot Mirror
I would expect every time there's heavy rain, a bad wind storm, or a tornado, the system will likely go down. Literally. Or some yahoo with a rifle and too much time on his hands.
Wouldn't it be neat if there were an idiot savant who could figure protein folding in his head? What a research tool. I could see a science fiction story about a culture that did advanced biochemistry based on having people like that, maybe bred for the position. Of course, once they began breeding genetically-engineered Slashdot obsessive first-posters, the culture would inevitably collapse.
Since I discovered meth, I don't NEED melatonin. But I do need a new set of teeth. And I still write great code after being up for 96 hours straight, like the time I wrote most of Internet Explorer. Sometimes I make mistakes though when I fixate on the spiders on the ceiling and all those noises outside make me jumpy but nosirree I don't need sleep. I'm thirsty. Where's my Jolt?
I think that genius can sense other genius, though. That is, if you have extraordinary abilities, because you internally understand that you can see things others can't, you often can spot that happening in other above-the-norm people. You can see that they are spotting patterns or making connections that are complex and difficult.
I believe that there are mutational abilities in some people that involve involve genuine physiological differences in the ability of their brains to deal with complex patterns. Such people can then have far-seeing intellectual vision. They can make the non-obvious connections.
By the way, this insight led me to develop Cerebro, in the hope of nurturing all mutantkind. Now if only this darned wheelchair were more comfortable, and I could stop Magneto, I'd be a very happy man.
I did read a book. It's called '1984'. It used to be fiction.
This is why I bought the Microsoft Self-Sterilizing Keyboard, which contains depleted uranium. Owww. My fingers feel numb. WTF?
Well, I guess this throws cold water on my cunning plans for Grand Theft Auto: God's Country.
The issue is a bit more complex. There is an atmospheric potential difference on objects relative to ground. That is, there is an electric field strength in the air that increases with height. I forgot if it's 200 volts per meter, or something like that. But you can demonstrate it with a wire suspended above ground and a high input resistance voltmeter. A tree is actually immersed in an EMF because of this. Being tall, there is a significant EMF difference between crown and roots. As the tree's inside cells contain water, it is a tall conductor (well, more like a resistor). Therefore there should be some division of the EMF depending on the place you tap the tree and measure to ground. You're not going to run motors from it, but the effect is real.
UWB radar. Ultra-Wideband Radar. Uses ultra short pulses. Go here: http://www.uwb.org/
Stay tuned for final episode, "Simpsons Jump the Shark". Bart learns C# and goes to work for an insurance company, and likes it; Lisa becomes a meth head and ends her days toothless, reading Spinoza in a cardboard crate; Homer develops a donut food-allergy and takes a job selling propane somewhere in Texas; Maggie becomes a Scientologist and is adopted by Tom Cruise. Yeah, bet you didn't see that one coming.
In other news, hunters in the Ozarks report downing a weird huge bird. Said hunter Billy-Bob Lockjaw, "First time I ever shot a bird what screamed "%^#@% you!" at me on the way down. It were sure good eatin, but we haid to pluck a lot o rubbery stuff ofn it."
Microsoft Bob Mark II: I'm Microsoft InsuranceSalesBob. Have you ever thought about what would happen to your family if you were in an accident and couldn't earn a living?
Tank: No. I don't have a family. I don't even have a (censored). (pointing downward)
MISBII: (grabs Tank's hand and shakes it. Tank's hand falls off.) See? It could happen to anybody!
Tank: You %$&^ hat.
$ = (size of lie x price of product x number of suckers x number of PCs x number of years of great products) - (cost of legal defense + cost of penalties + cost of political contributions + cost of Bill's house + cost of Indian programming labor) + K,
where K = a factor I shall explain but you have to pay me first.
As it is, I already hate websites with pointless Flash animations and useless eye candy. If we go to 3D, and if interfaces start to get too busy to the point of creating motion sickness, I think we'll have gone too far. I don't want to have to fly a starfighter just to open a file, either. You know some designers will go overboard. What would be useful is a way to truly see hierarchies of knowledge in a flexible way you could quickly traverse or filter using graphical commands. I hate to point at the movie 'Minority Report', but there you are.
Announcing -- the iPod Nixie! Thank you, Steve Jobs!! Now I can watch neon numerals while rollerskat.... ARRRGGHH (truck brakes squealing) ... (silence)....(blink..flash..flash...)
Outsourcing programming becomes even cheaper once you have mice with human brain cells. Pay attention, Bill.
THAT is why the Prisoner remake is not likely to be any good. It's endemic in the culture to take something good someone else created and made famous, badly clone it, and put one's own stamp on the clone to mark it as your creation. It's ego, stupidity, and the nature of the film power game that dictates it. They'll probably cast some rap singer as the lead, relocate things to some all-purpose Southern California desert, and have a blazing guns finale where the hero rescues Britney Spears from Dr. Evil then laughes heartily and freeze-frames, drinking a cola.
Oh, you laugh? Remember the FOX TV remake of Dr. Who? Where they had an LA street gang machine-gun Dr. Who to death? I have $50 that says ignorant bad taste has not gone out of style. Don't take my bet, it's a sucker bet.
Biologists now know that this was where pro wrestlers came from. See Nature magazine, Dec 2005, p435 "Prehistoric Smackdown Confirmed by Carbon-Dating".
I'm patenting a method for patenting something. I'll call it the 'one-click' method and sue everyone who tries to patent things without paying me a royalty. No wait. I'll patent a method for getting rich by sueing people who try to patent things without paying me a royalty. And then I'll set up the Dismal Prize at MIT for the most effective submarine patents, too... Any system that can be gamed this badly has to go.
Oh, you say that as if chronic diarrhea were a bad thing.
I'm not too clear on this. Er, is a vagina an organ? Wait ... never mind, I bet Wikipedia can help me.
And this is why I have decided to patent my process for fermenting Jolt Cola.
Ghosts?? OHHH. I thought you said 'goats'. See, website...Goatsex...I'm NOT excited... Oh hell. Never mind. Ok, let's not go there. (Does this show up on my resume?)
Microsoft Udder Finder, version 3. Has memory leaks though, and sometime it blue-screens your cow.
One word: Unreal Tournament Resthome.