Why make it humanoid? Why do robots have to look like people? The picture shows it carrying a soldier with an arm under the back and the knees. We carry people that way only because we only have two arms. How many EMTs carry the patients to the ambulance like that?
It's a machine. Give it as many arms as it needs. Support the head and neck. Restrain the limbs. Its vision is blocked by the soldier. How much good is it going to do if it whacks his head on the doorframe.
Just make it a wheelchair with legs. It can recline into a stretcher if the injuries require it.
You can velcro a whole bunch of stuffed animals on there, if you really want to.
Afterall, no one will make money by selling you a song that eternally has the same ad for Nike's latest running shoes at the beginning of it year after year.
What games should I pick up for cheap from the original Xbox, then?
Can't afford to blow $50 per game for the new ones, but I figure I should look for some of the older ones. Which ones are clever, entertaining, and can't afford to be missed? (yes yes, Halo, DOA, I know the big names, but I'm looking for the ones that didn't get as much press.
So far, I've only seen this one example. Are there others? One page really doesn't make for a very good conspiracy. It would look worse for Google if all their pages do this.
I would have thought this was just an oversight that was corrected since the cache was taken, but others have pointed out that it still exists if you change your User-Agent to Googlebot 2.0
Macy is a great actor. I will never ever say anything bad about Macy.
However, Rorshach is a seething ball of righteous anger and disgust. I need an actor that I know can be intimidating while icy cool, yet potentially snap at any moment. A scenery-chewer like Gary Oldman or Tim Roth (someone else's suggestion- wish I thought of it -think General Thade from Burton's Planet of the Apes)
Macy can be powerful, but still deflate easily into Dan Dreiberg's Night Owl.
You said "All mammalian retinas are 'inverted' as well as many other organisms." Which ones are not inverted? I assumed all vertebrates' eyes were similar.
Okay, I know the octopus eye is not inverted, and I'm not going to worry about insects and arthropods; there's an insane amount of variety there.
The platoon decided to literally surround the guy standing shoulder to shoulder. 5 minutes into the exercise, they found out they failed. The instructors had placed a guy in a big banyan tree overlooking the compound. It was trivial for him to drop in, 'kill' the guy, and shinny back up into the tree.
I guess I can't picture this right. They had the target physically surrounded. The instructor dropped in from the tree ( I understand that part)
and killed the target without anyone seeing.
So, they just happened to have put the target directly under the tree he was hiding in and he just bopped the guy on the head? or were the surrounders facing the wrong direction?
Why not model these voting machines after ATM's? Every registered voter starts out with a single vote per election. Accounts are credited and debited and everyone is accountable... Automatic Voting Machine anyone?
Actually, that's a question I desparately need an answer to. Why are ATMs more secure and trustworthy? (or at least, seen to be more secure) then voting machines?
The reason I ask: I just noticed that my ATM with its touch screen and extra large "so-everybody-can-guess-my-damn-PIN" keypad is made by DIEBOLD.
Obi Wan's character in Episode I was probably the worst thing about the movie other than Jar Jar Binks. The guy should have been identifiable as the same Obi Wan we all knew. He was just Qui Gon Jin's 'Igor-like' monk.
Well, I didn't expect him to be the same 40-some years prior. He was still an apprentice in Ep I. of course, watching your teacher die, then trying to train some whiny prodigy and then watching him turn into an arrogant punk who will eventually try to kill you, just might make you become a bit more cautious...
In AOTC, Anakin is a badly acted whining little baby. Lucas should have hired a real writer to develop him into a believeable Darth Vader precursor. Anakin, being so important in all the movies really needs to be real.
I seem to be one of the few people who didn't hate
Christensen's acting in Ep2. Why do people think they should like Anakin at all? Considering Luke was a whiny punk in the beginning of ANH, and Anakin was a whiner in Ep 1, I expected Anakin to continue this trend in Ep 2. After all, he's destined to be Lord Vader, with the habit of killing underlings when he doesn't get his way. The only reason Vader doesn't SOUND whiny is he's got that cool James Earl Jones voice modulator.
I'll probably get flamed as an apologist on this, ( maybe rightfully so), but here's my take on it.
If Yoda had been using minimal/aikido-type movements, it visually would have been boring. Count Dooku/Christopher Lee is an old man as well. The fights would have been no better than the Alec Guiness v. Darth Vader bout. Any subtlety in their fencing style would have been lost. Face Yoda against a more energetic opponent, (oh say Darth Maul's even-more-eviler twin) and then he could play the lethargic master.
That being said, the "let's not use our telekinetics and settle this by saber" was pretty sad. Since Yoda levitated his saber, I expected him to attack with flying sabers, nearby pillars and rocks, all while sitting at a safe distance drinking a cup of tea.
I can imagine that poor girl having a breakdown if $6.66 popped up everytime someone ordered something common.
Customer#1: "I'll have 2 Big Macs and a large Coke." Cashier: "That'll be $6.66. AAAH! EVIL! Your meal is free." Customer#2: "Cool! I'll have 2 Big Macs and a large Coke, too." Cashier: "AAAH! It's free!" Customer#3: "I'll have what they're having.." Cashier: "AAAH! My soul! It's burning!"
Stephen Hawking: "I call it a Hawking Hole." Fry: "No fair! I saw it first!" Stephen Hawking: "Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?"
Slashdot Mirror
> I know my 1998 Dodge Stratus requires you to remove the tire to change the battery.
You shouldn't have to remove the tire. If you crank the wheel hard, there's enough room to slide the battery out.
It's still an annoying design. But it's fun to watch people trying to connect jump-start cables.
Why make it humanoid? Why do robots have to look like people? The picture shows it carrying a soldier with an arm under the back and the knees. We carry people that way only because we only have two arms. How many EMTs carry the patients to the ambulance like that?
It's a machine. Give it as many arms as it needs. Support the head and neck. Restrain the limbs. Its vision is blocked by the soldier. How much good is it going to do if it whacks his head on the doorframe.
Just make it a wheelchair with legs. It can recline into a stretcher if the injuries require it.
You can velcro a whole bunch of stuffed animals on there, if you really want to.
Well duh, that's because they wear Vans.
(Vans are a brand of sneakers.)
Up?
"... And stop calling it a car-bay."
It's a car-hole.
So, I'm a jerk because you're boring?
Or maybe I'm trying to enter your complaint/pull up your records/ on my computer while talking to you.
Oh you got me, I'm reading Slashdot in another window
Not so much a fad, but there was a series of pictures going around ahile ago that I can't track down now.
They had this freaky monkey-boy-looking thing put in a variety of awkward situations (fraternity hazing, something about milk, alone in the bathroom)
Turns out it was an art project, using an anthropomorphic puppet, but they were very unsettling pictures when you thought they were real.
I thought it was called "Joshua", but I can't seem to find it in google.
Anybody know what I mean?
What games should I pick up for cheap from the original Xbox, then?
Can't afford to blow $50 per game for the new ones, but I figure I should look for some of the older ones. Which ones are clever, entertaining, and can't afford to be missed? (yes yes, Halo, DOA, I know the big names, but I'm looking for the ones that didn't get as much press.
So far, I've only seen this one example. Are there others? One page really doesn't make for a very good conspiracy. It would look worse for Google if all their pages do this.
I would have thought this was just an oversight that was corrected since the cache was taken, but others have pointed out that it still exists if you change your User-Agent to Googlebot 2.0
It's inevitable, all the highest-modded comments are going to be Wil's. Maybe he should ask the questions and we'll post the answers...
Macy is a great actor. I will never ever say anything bad about Macy.
However, Rorshach is a seething ball of righteous anger and disgust. I need an actor that I know can be intimidating while icy cool, yet potentially snap at any moment. A scenery-chewer like Gary Oldman or Tim Roth (someone else's suggestion- wish I thought of it -think General Thade from Burton's Planet of the Apes)
Macy can be powerful, but still deflate easily into Dan Dreiberg's Night Owl.
'pit organ' works better, once you ignore the musical sites.
And yes, that's why they're called pit vipers
You said "All mammalian retinas are 'inverted' as well as many other organisms." Which ones are not inverted? I assumed all vertebrates' eyes were similar.
Okay, I know the octopus eye is not inverted, and I'm not going to worry about insects and arthropods; there's an insane amount of variety there.
I guess I can't picture this right. They had the target physically surrounded. The instructor dropped in from the tree ( I understand that part) and killed the target without anyone seeing.
So, they just happened to have put the target directly under the tree he was hiding in and he just bopped the guy on the head? or were the surrounders facing the wrong direction?
Or do you mean 'literally' as in figuratively?
Why not model these voting machines after ATM's? Every registered voter starts out with a single vote per election. Accounts are credited and debited and everyone is accountable... Automatic Voting Machine anyone?
Actually, that's a question I desparately need an answer to. Why are ATMs more secure and trustworthy? (or at least, seen to be more secure) then voting machines?
The reason I ask: I just noticed that my ATM with its touch screen and extra large "so-everybody-can-guess-my-damn-PIN" keypad is made by DIEBOLD.
Umm, they had a JavaScript that should show the target link in the Status line. You shouldn't be clicking the link to see where it goes, anyway.
Am using IE, since I'm at work. Maybe their mouseover script doesn't work in your particular browser.
Of course, you could just view the source code to see the 'real' target links
That being said, I got 9/10. I missed the earthlink fraud one, dammit. Good thing I don't use Earthlink...
Phil
Well, I didn't expect him to be the same 40-some years prior. He was still an apprentice in Ep I. of course, watching your teacher die, then trying to train some whiny prodigy and then watching him turn into an arrogant punk who will eventually try to kill you, just might make you become a bit more cautious...
In AOTC, Anakin is a badly acted whining little baby. Lucas should have hired a real writer to develop him into a believeable Darth Vader precursor. Anakin, being so important in all the movies really needs to be real.
I seem to be one of the few people who didn't hate Christensen's acting in Ep2. Why do people think they should like Anakin at all? Considering Luke was a whiny punk in the beginning of ANH, and Anakin was a whiner in Ep 1, I expected Anakin to continue this trend in Ep 2. After all, he's destined to be Lord Vader, with the habit of killing underlings when he doesn't get his way. The only reason Vader doesn't SOUND whiny is he's got that cool James Earl Jones voice modulator.
Everybody's got their own opinion...
I'll probably get flamed as an apologist on this, ( maybe rightfully so), but here's my take on it.
If Yoda had been using minimal/aikido-type movements, it visually would have been boring. Count Dooku/Christopher Lee is an old man as well. The fights would have been no better than the Alec Guiness v. Darth Vader bout. Any subtlety in their fencing style would have been lost. Face Yoda against a more energetic opponent, (oh say Darth Maul's even-more-eviler twin) and then he could play the lethargic master.
That being said, the "let's not use our telekinetics and settle this by saber" was pretty sad. Since Yoda levitated his saber, I expected him to attack with flying sabers, nearby pillars and rocks, all while sitting at a safe distance drinking a cup of tea.
How unusual was your order?
I can imagine that poor girl having a breakdown if $6.66 popped up everytime someone ordered something common.
Customer#1: "I'll have 2 Big Macs and a large Coke."
Cashier: "That'll be $6.66. AAAH! EVIL! Your meal is free."
Customer#2: "Cool! I'll have 2 Big Macs and a large Coke, too."
Cashier: "AAAH! It's free!"
Customer#3: "I'll have what they're having.."
Cashier: "AAAH! My soul! It's burning!"
http://gallery.origami.free.fr/Auteurs/Japan/Yosh
Made from two squares of paper. I've never folded them, but they do look slick.
Stephen Hawking: "I call it a Hawking Hole."
Fry: "No fair! I saw it first!"
Stephen Hawking: "Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?"
Can't find any good examples of this, but words that have anagrams should be harder to decipher when scrambled.
Only one I can think of off the top of my head is:
The maneless lion remained nameless to hide the lameness of his maleness.
try deciphering that if scrambled.
The 121 C temperature is interesting because that is the typical temperature used for sterilizing.
A typical autoclave will run at 121C, ~15psi for twenty minutes. This should've killed any bacteria. (I'm guessing on the pressure, may be wrong)
I'm not too worried about this guy running rampant through our microbiological lab on its own, though.
Actually, I'm in the middle of re-reading 'Rainbow Six', so the first thing I thought was "I am not getting that vaccination!"
Freaky movie, though
a little off-topic, but that reminds me of what fun I had trying to explain that you couldn't .zip a file by just putting in on a ZIP disk...