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We have exploded over 2000 nuclear devices on Earth. 427 Megatons of that was done in Atmosphere. If these tree huggers were right, we would all be dead right now.
I think a deep probe would be a good idea but landing a few mobile landers on the surface near the cracks would let us at least examine the area for fossils if any.
The Mac at one point owned the PC gaming scene early on. There were tons of DOS games but when the Mac first came out Apple had a ton of Game Evangelists who went around recruiting game developers for the Mac. At that point in time most new networked games were coming out on the Mac first. It was easier for developers to support the Mac than DOS. Then M$ came out with windows and Apple ditched the game market and tried to become a business computer. Net result Apple lost, M$ won. Most games now come out on the Wintel Platform and most home computers are now PC's not macs.
Most of the young males these days no longer watch TV. They play computer games instead. AD supported broadcast TV is dead, it just does not realize it yet. Commercials breaks are used to go to the john or flip channels or skipped via VCR or TiVO/ReplayTV. Tivo I think recently reported that most of its viewers skipped commercials except when watching the news. Well I find it amusing because when I have the news on I am usually only listening to the news and not even watching the screen. At that time its usually just background noise while I work or play on my computer.
I hope the FBI has learned a little bit more about computers. Simply disconnecting them at the site cold destroy all the data they are actually looking for. If the logs or inode structures or crypt keys are kept in volatile RAM powering off the systems would destroy the data. I know of one incident almost a decade ago where they removed hardware and could not recreate it because the SSD accelerator was powered off.
It will not be too long before someone dumps enough human DNA into a chimp or dog and raise its intelligence level. I can imagine the furor that will cause. The US banning cloning is stupid, it just means more jobs and technology for other countries that could have been developed faster in the US. I am pretty sure China will have no qualms about researching cloning and developing and economy based on biotechnology. It just means that rich Americans will have to travel there to get the medical treatment and the flow of smart young students worldwide who want to work in that field will go to China instead of the US.
EvE online was probably the most original game I played. Of the Rehashed games, NeverWinter Nights, Homeworld 2, Rise of Nations and Galactic Civilizations were the best of the lot.
I loved the Crow and Dark City is one of my all time favorite movies. Given that I also have a collection of Will Smith DVD's and have liked most of his movies, I will probably go into this movie with high expectations.
The trailer for I Robot is similar to the one for Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse in that it appears to be commercial for an actual product. I liked the way it was done. Figured out it was a trailer for I Robot fairly quickly even before the 3 laws safe tag line came up.
Hmmm, two checks one for $.24 and one $.34. What was the postage cost of that? Its $.37 for standard mail. What is the cost to your bank for processing each check?
Hmmm, reminds me of an comment, something along the lines of old scientific theories/hypothesis do not get dumped because they have been invalidated but because their proponents die off. The younger crowd with the new theories take their place. The US position on this is rediculous and in the long run dangerous to the US bio-technological capabilities. I am pretty sure China will take up the slack. All they have to do is open the doors to cloning and they will get a rush of very higly motivated and skilled geneticists working for them. Probably only take them a generation or two to after that to outstrip the US in drug research and produce super atheletes/soldiers.
I think I only missed 1 showing of the miniseries. Got it on my TiVo, but just kinda left my set tuned to SciFi for 3 full evenings/nights.
Cylons built as fighters, infantry, human-spies etc.. Made sense to me, highly specialized each machine constructed to do a specific job. 12 colonies, 12 models of Cylon/Humans. One model for each colony. That might be the thinking of a machine.
Are the new human looking cylons nano-assembled full grown? Vat grown? #6 was curious about babies so I figure the former.
Loved the battle scenes, the firepower of the Galactica was awsome. The Cylon ship designs were awsome. I liked the design of the various Colony ships. I must admit I was looking for "Colonial Movers" on one of the colony ships.:)
One question was where they picked up the other squadrons of Vipers. They had 20 pilots and no fighters at one point. After the jump they had several squadrons of fighters and pilots. Hmmm, the convoy had pilots and the warehouse had fighters stocked?
I have a 30 hour Philips model Tivo I purchased 2-3 years ago. One of the first things I did was make a image of the original 30GB disk. I run my Tivo from the imaged copy. Later I added a 100GB disk for additional capacity. I on occasion debate about adding another 100GB. I have had 0 problems with my Tivo and only 1 problem with the service. It kept deleting SciFi channel at one point to my irritation. Something to do with a bad entry from the guys they buy their channel data from. I on occasion think about upgrading the 30 GB disk to 100GB but the current capacity is more than sufficient for my PVR needs.
Yes, and the placement ads are already there in the shows. I flipped to some show on TV which had a bunch of guys on board a nuclear sub. Everyone was drinking bottled water of one particular brand. I forget the shows name and which bottled water it was.
C'mon on a nuclear sub? Don't they like make their own drinking water? They have to stay submerged for months at a time, taking up all that space/weight for bottled water was hilarious to me. It completely destroyed my suspension of disbelief.
Should be fairly easy to see. Lets see what the US companies are patenting compared to the patents in the rest of the world. Hmmm, 1 click shopping patents, patents on how to use a swing etc..
OK, lets compare, if all the idiotic patents were not listed and then compared to the also non-idiotic patents owned by non-US interests we should be able to determine fairly easilly how far the US has dropped in technology.
Its the old chicken and egg problem. Software is what determines how well hardware sells. If there are few good games for the X-Box it will not sell. We saw this with the Macintosh when it first came out, it was the hit of the home PC market as it had all the cool new games (it was easier then to write games for the mac) and was easy to use. Then Apple killed off their games evangelists because they wanted to be in the business arena. Around then M$ came out with DirectX stuff which made it easier for game developers to develop game for the PC. So most of the $8 billion game industry is based on the PC.
Being one of the early adopters of HDTV I am going to be really pissed if all my equipment is junked because of the CBDTBA. If they pass it the goverment had better pay for replacing it with the same quality equipment that is CBDTBA compliant. I have already made up my mind to vote against Fienstien for supporting the POS legislation.
Here is what the Pay per use guys will do. They will use GPS encryption to send to your home a signal that you can record an only play back at your home and you have to pay up each time you view it. My bet is that it will be chock full of commercials like the dammed DVD's with all those stupid commercials in the begining. I hate DVD's where you cannot just drop it in the player and hit play.
Dunno much about the bills, I had always voted for Fienstein before in spite of all the crud she supported that I did not like. Now after this I think I am switching to the Republican party.
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We have exploded over 2000 nuclear devices on Earth. 427 Megatons of that was done in Atmosphere. If these tree huggers were right, we would all be dead right now.
I think a deep probe would be a good idea but landing a few mobile landers on the surface near the cracks would let us at least examine the area for fossils if any.
The Mac at one point owned the PC gaming scene early on. There were tons of DOS games but when the Mac first came out Apple had a ton of Game Evangelists who went around recruiting game developers for the Mac. At that point in time most new networked games were coming out on the Mac first. It was easier for developers to support the Mac than DOS. Then M$ came out with windows and Apple ditched the game market and tried to become a business computer. Net result Apple lost, M$ won. Most games now come out on the Wintel Platform and most home computers are now PC's not macs.
Most of the young males these days no longer watch TV. They play computer games instead. AD supported broadcast TV is dead, it just does not realize it yet. Commercials breaks are used to go to the john or flip channels or skipped via VCR or TiVO/ReplayTV. Tivo I think recently reported that most of its viewers skipped commercials except when watching the news. Well I find it amusing because when I have the news on I am usually only listening to the news and not even watching the screen. At that time its usually just background noise while I work or play on my computer.
I hope the FBI has learned a little bit more about computers. Simply disconnecting them at the site cold destroy all the data they are actually looking for. If the logs or inode structures or crypt keys are kept in volatile RAM powering off the systems would destroy the data. I know of one incident almost a decade ago where they removed hardware and could not recreate it because the SSD accelerator was powered off.
It will not be too long before someone dumps enough human DNA into a chimp or dog and raise its intelligence level. I can imagine the furor that will cause. The US banning cloning is stupid, it just means more jobs and technology for other countries that could have been developed faster in the US. I am pretty sure China will have no qualms about researching cloning and developing and economy based on biotechnology. It just means that rich Americans will have to travel there to get the medical treatment and the flow of smart young students worldwide who want to work in that field will go to China instead of the US.
Hmmm, I think I spent a week in there once installing some software.
The true rollout will attempt to send am message to counterfit@secretservice.gov logging who you are and when you attempted to scan the notes in. :)
EvE online was probably the most original game I played. Of the Rehashed games, NeverWinter Nights, Homeworld 2, Rise of Nations and Galactic Civilizations were the best of the lot.
I loved the Crow and Dark City is one of my all time favorite movies. Given that I also have a collection of Will Smith DVD's and have liked most of his movies, I will probably go into this movie with high expectations.
The trailer for I Robot is similar to the one for Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse in that it appears to be commercial for an actual product. I liked the way it was done. Figured out it was a trailer for I Robot fairly quickly even before the 3 laws safe tag line came up.
Hmmm, two checks one for $.24 and one $.34. What was the postage cost of that? Its $.37 for standard mail. What is the cost to your bank for processing each check?
Hmmm, reminds me of an comment, something along the lines of old scientific theories/hypothesis do not get dumped because they have been invalidated but because their proponents die off. The younger crowd with the new theories take their place. The US position on this is rediculous and in the long run dangerous to the US bio-technological capabilities. I am pretty sure China will take up the slack. All they have to do is open the doors to cloning and they will get a rush of very higly motivated and skilled geneticists working for them. Probably only take them a generation or two to after that to outstrip the US in drug research and produce super atheletes/soldiers.
I think I only missed 1 showing of the miniseries. Got it on my TiVo, but just kinda left my set tuned to SciFi for 3 full evenings/nights. Cylons built as fighters, infantry, human-spies etc.. Made sense to me, highly specialized each machine constructed to do a specific job. 12 colonies, 12 models of Cylon/Humans. One model for each colony. That might be the thinking of a machine. Are the new human looking cylons nano-assembled full grown? Vat grown? #6 was curious about babies so I figure the former. Loved the battle scenes, the firepower of the Galactica was awsome. The Cylon ship designs were awsome. I liked the design of the various Colony ships. I must admit I was looking for "Colonial Movers" on one of the colony ships. :)
One question was where they picked up the other squadrons of Vipers. They had 20 pilots and no fighters at one point. After the jump they had several squadrons of fighters and pilots. Hmmm, the convoy had pilots and the warehouse had fighters stocked?
I have a 30 hour Philips model Tivo I purchased 2-3 years ago. One of the first things I did was make a image of the original 30GB disk. I run my Tivo from the imaged copy. Later I added a 100GB disk for additional capacity. I on occasion debate about adding another 100GB. I have had 0 problems with my Tivo and only 1 problem with the service. It kept deleting SciFi channel at one point to my irritation. Something to do with a bad entry from the guys they buy their channel data from. I on occasion think about upgrading the 30 GB disk to 100GB but the current capacity is more than sufficient for my PVR needs.
Yes, and the placement ads are already there in the shows. I flipped to some show on TV which had a bunch of guys on board a nuclear sub. Everyone was drinking bottled water of one particular brand. I forget the shows name and which bottled water it was.
C'mon on a nuclear sub? Don't they like make their own drinking water? They have to stay submerged for months at a time, taking up all that space/weight for bottled water was hilarious to me. It completely destroyed my suspension of disbelief.
Should be fairly easy to see. Lets see what the US companies are patenting compared to the patents in the rest of the world. Hmmm, 1 click shopping patents, patents on how to use a swing etc..
OK, lets compare, if all the idiotic patents were not listed and then compared to the also non-idiotic patents owned by non-US interests we should be able to determine fairly easilly how far the US has dropped in technology.
Its the old chicken and egg problem. Software is what determines how well hardware sells. If there are few good games for the X-Box it will not sell. We saw this with the Macintosh when it first came out, it was the hit of the home PC market as it had all the cool new games (it was easier then to write games for the mac) and was easy to use. Then Apple killed off their games evangelists because they wanted to be in the business arena. Around then M$ came out with DirectX stuff which made it easier for game developers to develop game for the PC. So most of the $8 billion game industry is based on the PC.
Being one of the early adopters of HDTV I am going to be really pissed if all my equipment is junked because of the CBDTBA. If they pass it the goverment had better pay for replacing it with the same quality equipment that is CBDTBA compliant. I have already made up my mind to vote against Fienstien for supporting the POS legislation. Here is what the Pay per use guys will do. They will use GPS encryption to send to your home a signal that you can record an only play back at your home and you have to pay up each time you view it. My bet is that it will be chock full of commercials like the dammed DVD's with all those stupid commercials in the begining. I hate DVD's where you cannot just drop it in the player and hit play.
Dunno much about the bills, I had always voted for Fienstein before in spite of all the crud she supported that I did not like. Now after this I think I am switching to the Republican party.