To be more precise, almost every city on Earth has always been in one of these two states :
- demographically growing
- lacking water
Nowadays the developed countries have more reasonable demographics and sometimes even have cities that have a decreasing population, but this was true in the past and still is in most of the developing world.
Okay, enough with these sith-mocking lines and parodies ! I say we disconnect slashdot and youtube until they have been approved by a sith-master. Let's force-choke these blasphemous heathens out of our tubes.
That's very true... And also true for most literature, and movies, and television, and plays, and board games... But that doesn't keep people from trying to convey useful messages or morals through those mediums. And it shouldn't keep people from trying to convey useful messages or morals through the medium of gaming either.
It reminds me of a writing advice : forget about your message. Focus on making a good text, a good story and, if you have an ounce of talent, your own vision of the world we be embedded in your work.
I don't think that vandalism or violence are particularly censored in Germany. They had their crazy lobbyist about violent games but I don't think they manage to pass laws in that direction.
- How was the sample of scientists chosen ? The summary seems to make the assumption she just took the highest-level scientists she could find and interrogate them, but was that really the case or was it based on something like voluntarily responding to a form ? In which case I have the tendency to believe that believers would be more respoonsives than your regular agnosticist/atheist that just doesn't care about faith.
- What does she call "scientist" ? It is borderline trollish but I believe that including "human science" profiles makes the rate of believers go much higher.
- Why is this published as a book instead of a peer-reviewed paper ?
Yay for building this base thanks to robots
Nay for building it with humanoid robots
My bet is that they'll get their funds by showing nice pictures of Asimo wielding a pickaxe but when it will come to design their robots will look more like vehicles than to Johnny 5
Why only look for software backdoors ? That is not the main problem I foresee... How can you tell that the chip inside is really what it is labelled as ?
There is an ongoing data disaster : infinite copyright. We are loosing all the collective memory of the 20th century, save for a few blockbusters and famous books. All these data are stored on fragile medium and are forbidden to distribute in order to save them. Oh, and it has happened already : the musicals of ye old late 19th century were already overprotected by copyright, and many were never "saved" into film in the beginning of the 20th century, not wanting to be pirated...
Sounds a lot like fusion: it works but it's not yet useful.
Mach 6 during 12 seconds is 23 kms. During 200 seconds it is 790 km. Useless for a plane, but imagine what a drone or a missile could do. Short range but no possibility of missile interception : it is already useful despite being a prototype.
I am however disappointed : I thought it was supposed to achieve Mach 10 ?
Isn't the slashdot rallying cry 'you can't patent software in Europe and anywhere that lets you patent software is retarded'? So what is the story?
It can now be completed by "because it leads to surreal situation like Warner Bros being sued millions for an imaginary crime against an imaginary property that is supposed to stop people committing an imaginary crime against other imaginary properties."
Except a scientific mind can be fooled. You know the old pinch thing ? Pinch yourself in dream, if there is no pain, it is a dream. Except on this dream where I was talking with someone insisting that this was very real. I pinched, felt nothing, and he said "see ? if it was a dream you would feel pain !" and it made sense at this time...
Crocodile dilemna
tl;dr : you can't predict the behavior of people trying to do predictions and taking your predictions into account. Which happens routinely on Wall Street. You can hire as much logicians as you want, they are not people who can do and undo the rules of logic, they just discover them.
Speaking of mental disorders... We have 1% of psychopaths in the population. Cunning, charismatic, empathy-less bastards: Psychopathy
The only community studies are about prevalence amongst criminal convicts (about 25%), but from what I hear/read, I think a study of the prevalence amongst big companies boards would be quite enlightening.
It is a vehicle to mandate openness of sources. Remove copyright laws and mandate source code bundling when selling binaries of a software and free software fans will be more than happy.
The value of clothing drops dramatically within 3 months because fashions are seasonal. So if you can replicate it after 1 year, no one cares. This is not true of software, movies, music, etc. A lot of IP retains its value for decades or longer.
Only a partial retort, but the music industry already has its own version of scarcity goods : concert tickets.
Slashdot Mirror
To be more precise, almost every city on Earth has always been in one of these two states :
- demographically growing
- lacking water
Nowadays the developed countries have more reasonable demographics and sometimes even have cities that have a decreasing population, but this was true in the past and still is in most of the developing world.
Okay, enough with these sith-mocking lines and parodies ! I say we disconnect slashdot and youtube until they have been approved by a sith-master. Let's force-choke these blasphemous heathens out of our tubes.
Actually a lynch mob is an empathy overdose : you really feel like the group
That's very true... And also true for most literature, and movies, and television, and plays, and board games... But that doesn't keep people from trying to convey useful messages or morals through those mediums. And it shouldn't keep people from trying to convey useful messages or morals through the medium of gaming either.
It reminds me of a writing advice : forget about your message. Focus on making a good text, a good story and, if you have an ounce of talent, your own vision of the world we be embedded in your work.
I think it can apply to game design as well.
I don't think that vandalism or violence are particularly censored in Germany. They had their crazy lobbyist about violent games but I don't think they manage to pass laws in that direction.
Yes.
Continue to collaborate to folding@home, it does help.
Nuke it. It is the only way to be sure.
- How was the sample of scientists chosen ? The summary seems to make the assumption she just took the highest-level scientists she could find and interrogate them, but was that really the case or was it based on something like voluntarily responding to a form ? In which case I have the tendency to believe that believers would be more respoonsives than your regular agnosticist/atheist that just doesn't care about faith.
- What does she call "scientist" ? It is borderline trollish but I believe that including "human science" profiles makes the rate of believers go much higher.
- Why is this published as a book instead of a peer-reviewed paper ?
Yay for building this base thanks to robots
Nay for building it with humanoid robots
My bet is that they'll get their funds by showing nice pictures of Asimo wielding a pickaxe but when it will come to design their robots will look more like vehicles than to Johnny 5
...it reinforces my belief about common people with scientific facts ! yay !
Why only look for software backdoors ? That is not the main problem I foresee... How can you tell that the chip inside is really what it is labelled as ?
There is an ongoing data disaster : infinite copyright. We are loosing all the collective memory of the 20th century, save for a few blockbusters and famous books. All these data are stored on fragile medium and are forbidden to distribute in order to save them. Oh, and it has happened already : the musicals of ye old late 19th century were already overprotected by copyright, and many were never "saved" into film in the beginning of the 20th century, not wanting to be pirated...
They should have done it second. I really wished they took the nuke approach first...
Sounds a lot like fusion: it works but it's not yet useful.
Mach 6 during 12 seconds is 23 kms. During 200 seconds it is 790 km. Useless for a plane, but imagine what a drone or a missile could do. Short range but no possibility of missile interception : it is already useful despite being a prototype.
I am however disappointed : I thought it was supposed to achieve Mach 10 ?
Isn't the slashdot rallying cry 'you can't patent software in Europe and anywhere that lets you patent software is retarded'? So what is the story?
It can now be completed by "because it leads to surreal situation like Warner Bros being sued millions for an imaginary crime against an imaginary property that is supposed to stop people committing an imaginary crime against other imaginary properties."
Except a scientific mind can be fooled. You know the old pinch thing ? Pinch yourself in dream, if there is no pain, it is a dream. Except on this dream where I was talking with someone insisting that this was very real. I pinched, felt nothing, and he said "see ? if it was a dream you would feel pain !" and it made sense at this time...
Crocodile dilemna
tl;dr : you can't predict the behavior of people trying to do predictions and taking your predictions into account. Which happens routinely on Wall Street. You can hire as much logicians as you want, they are not people who can do and undo the rules of logic, they just discover them.
Speaking of mental disorders... We have 1% of psychopaths in the population. Cunning, charismatic, empathy-less bastards :
Psychopathy
The only community studies are about prevalence amongst criminal convicts (about 25%), but from what I hear/read, I think a study of the prevalence amongst big companies boards would be quite enlightening.
Sharing was a bad idea. Let's unplug the Internet !
BTW, I don't trust someone with that much hair and so few beard...
I bet they'll cut some zero-G scenes but not for technical reasons : remember that they first get there to meet some stoned rastas.
I am happily participating in the pirate party that want a 5 years term, and an authorization on non-commercial sharing.
It is a vehicle to mandate openness of sources. Remove copyright laws and mandate source code bundling when selling binaries of a software and free software fans will be more than happy.
The value of clothing drops dramatically within 3 months because fashions are seasonal. So if you can replicate it after 1 year, no one cares. This is not true of software, movies, music, etc. A lot of IP retains its value for decades or longer.
Only a partial retort, but the music industry already has its own version of scarcity goods : concert tickets.
...until they worked flawlessly
The article implies that it was lack of initiative by Salk Institute that allowed StemCells to secure a patent on the technique
You have to know that patenting a process internationaly costs around $100K