Yeah, but they did a good job with Fear and Loathing, IMHO. The point of my post was that I'd rather not take the chance that it ends up really crappy, like Sphere (not that the book was great, but the movie sucked ass).
Given the quality of the movies that have beenc oming out lately, I would NOT want to see Snow Crash - The Movie. In fact, the idea is almost insulting, and I pray that Stephenson would slam the door in the face of any studio that proposes it to him. Imagine the awful feeling you'd get after watching some braindead director's adaptation of the novel into a two hour film. You wouldn't be able to unwatch it, and you could never read the book again without thinking about the movie. Ugh.
No, I don't have to wonder. As stated in the article, the spacecraft these robots will be working on were designed to be serviced by humans. Hence, a robot designed to service them is most efficient if it is in human form.
I'd imagine in spaceflight you don't want to have to rely on specialized robots in order to service your craft (which is the only thing keeping you alive). It's much smarter to have these robots for routine maintenance, but still have the option of suiting up and going out there yourself in case the shit really hits the fan.
Sorry to bust your bubble, but Sweden is not part of the United States. Since I've gone this far, I should clarify that this means they aren't subject to the laws of our democracy.
I never considered using an Apple machine for a webserver until I was told the only machine available was a G4 tower running OS X. Well, this was a far cry better than OS 9, since I could still use my old friends Apache, PHP, and MySQL.
After a few weeks of that, I switched to just plain Darwin. Reclaimed some processor cycles and memory that way. However, as BSD-like as Darwin is, everything's just a little different--enough so to be annoying.
A few weeks after that, strange network errors would crop up, requiring hard resets. Power outages, though not the machine's fault, were just as bad since Apples don't turn themselves back on after a power outage (at least this one didn't). Then, my SSH sessions started terminating after the first command I would enter after login, be it 'w', 'ps', or 'ls'. I switched back to FreeBSD on x86 hardware a few days later, and have been happy ever since.
Did anyone else watch the videos on Vocera's site? At the very end when he unblocks all calls, the system asks him to "Please contact Harry Forearm as soon as possible."
Theaters should just implement a spotlight system a-la the Movementarians' indoctrination video in The Simpsons. As soon as you pick up your phone, the movie stops, and you are nailed by a high-power spotlight until you hang up. This should serve as a nice deterrent. For added fun, intercept their signal and play their call over the sound system for everyone to hear. Hell, I'd pay extra for a seat if theaters around here did that!
I purchased a 10.4" LCD panel w/ an Elo touchscreen from http://www.allelec.com/ and mounted it in the side of an AT case for my linux box. It makes a great little closet machine, and I don't have to lug a monitor over to it when I need to use the console. The touchscreen seems to be only accurate within a small area (at least in X), but that's okay since I didn't pay the extra $200 for it. Unexpected goodies are cool.
. ..but I downloaded and watched a few clips from the Project Oxygen website. From the amazing stuff I've seen coming out of MIT (especially their media lab), I expected more. ..
The voice recognition was noticeably laggy, and in the intelligent meeting clip, the guy has to say "computer" twice. I remember dictating my final essay for high school english using Dragon Dictate, and its accuracy and speed didn't even require me to slow down or speak deliberately.
Also, the "sketch" demo was rather lame, even if it makes great PBS material that even computer-phobics may enjoy watching. The little 2D physics simulator looks exactly like a program (the name escapes me) that I had, again, in high school. We used to spend hours making little goldberg machines instead of working. What's new here? They've added a little pen-style pointer? That's hardly a new paradigm for human-computer interaction. With the kind of lofty language that the project oxygen site uses, I would've expected more. They claim that current interfaces are cumbersome and require us to do a lot of the work for the computer, well, having one guy wearing a headset microphone and using a keyboard to issue terse monotone commands seems pretty unnatural to me.
I seem to remember a scene where the bugs were shooting these blue asteroid things from their asses. They actually exerted enough force to make it into suborbital altitudes and hit the army transport ships. I'm sure after eating a few cans of beans, they'd be able to launch one across the entire galaxy and hit, a city on Earth without hitting anything on the way, and timed perfectly to Earth's orbit and rotation.
This is only going to prevent net stations from getting as big as their airwave counterparts. Like the futile war on (some) drugs, it will simply push fair users underground and off the industry's collective radars. Also, as some other posters mentioned, this could be a big break for music that isn't signed to a major label. Folks that rely on net streams to get music at work and school may have some good taste forced down their throats for once:)
Yes, in addition to newegg.com, which many people have mentioned, try mwave. Their shopping cart system is very similar, and I've ordered tens of thousands of dollars' worth of stuff through them over the years.
For single items, or a few small items, newegg is cheaper. For a whole system, you might be better off at mwave.
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 12:26:45 -0700 To: ombudsman@npr.org Subject: Link Permission Request
Hello,
It is trivial to tell your webserver to check the referring page of a visitor. If the visitor is referred to npr.org from an address that is *not* npr.org, you can deny them access, or redirect them to a page explaining why npr.org does not allow hyperlinks.
While this is really lame, it would address your bandwidth cost concerns without resorting to such ineffectual assertions that linking is "prohibited". That's wishful thinking.
Except, in my opinion, (and I don't think I'm alone here) the current state of P2P sucks butt. There was nothing cooler than firing up Napster on my cablemodem and finding everything I was looking for. Now, you've got these decentralized P2P networks to contend with, which are generally slow and unwieldy. Sure, there are client-server apps like eDonkey and Direct Connect, but that model existed before Napster (Hotline, anyone?) and is not going to fill the hole anytime soon.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but they did a good job with Fear and Loathing, IMHO. The point of my post was that I'd rather not take the chance that it ends up really crappy, like Sphere (not that the book was great, but the movie sucked ass).
Given the quality of the movies that have beenc oming out lately, I would NOT want to see Snow Crash - The Movie. In fact, the idea is almost insulting, and I pray that Stephenson would slam the door in the face of any studio that proposes it to him. Imagine the awful feeling you'd get after watching some braindead director's adaptation of the novel into a two hour film. You wouldn't be able to unwatch it, and you could never read the book again without thinking about the movie. Ugh.
Your wife is that boring, eh?
They managed to conduct a 10-minute scramjet experiment within a few seconds? Damn, those things are fast!!
I'd imagine in spaceflight you don't want to have to rely on specialized robots in order to service your craft (which is the only thing keeping you alive). It's much smarter to have these robots for routine maintenance, but still have the option of suiting up and going out there yourself in case the shit really hits the fan.
Sorry to bust your bubble, but Sweden is not part of the United States. Since I've gone this far, I should clarify that this means they aren't subject to the laws of our democracy.
This is an outright repost of this comment, on the other P2P Radio story.
After a few weeks of that, I switched to just plain Darwin. Reclaimed some processor cycles and memory that way. However, as BSD-like as Darwin is, everything's just a little different--enough so to be annoying.
A few weeks after that, strange network errors would crop up, requiring hard resets. Power outages, though not the machine's fault, were just as bad since Apples don't turn themselves back on after a power outage (at least this one didn't). Then, my SSH sessions started terminating after the first command I would enter after login, be it 'w', 'ps', or 'ls'. I switched back to FreeBSD on x86 hardware a few days later, and have been happy ever since.
Still don't get it? Say it out loud.
Theaters should just implement a spotlight system a-la the Movementarians' indoctrination video in The Simpsons. As soon as you pick up your phone, the movie stops, and you are nailed by a high-power spotlight until you hang up. This should serve as a nice deterrent. For added fun, intercept their signal and play their call over the sound system for everyone to hear. Hell, I'd pay extra for a seat if theaters around here did that!
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob."
Ah, that's the one.
So, the same plugin is quirky under one Linux distribution, but works fine under another. . . must be the plugin!
I purchased a 10.4" LCD panel w/ an Elo touchscreen from http://www.allelec.com/ and mounted it in the side of an AT case for my linux box. It makes a great little closet machine, and I don't have to lug a monitor over to it when I need to use the console. The touchscreen seems to be only accurate within a small area (at least in X), but that's okay since I didn't pay the extra $200 for it. Unexpected goodies are cool.
Come to think of it, you may be on to something. . .
The voice recognition was noticeably laggy, and in the intelligent meeting clip, the guy has to say "computer" twice. I remember dictating my final essay for high school english using Dragon Dictate, and its accuracy and speed didn't even require me to slow down or speak deliberately.
Also, the "sketch" demo was rather lame, even if it makes great PBS material that even computer-phobics may enjoy watching. The little 2D physics simulator looks exactly like a program (the name escapes me) that I had, again, in high school. We used to spend hours making little goldberg machines instead of working. What's new here? They've added a little pen-style pointer? That's hardly a new paradigm for human-computer interaction. With the kind of lofty language that the project oxygen site uses, I would've expected more. They claim that current interfaces are cumbersome and require us to do a lot of the work for the computer, well, having one guy wearing a headset microphone and using a keyboard to issue terse monotone commands seems pretty unnatural to me.
I confess, I didn't read the article, but guns? Whose commentary was that? This is The Internet, what the fuck do we need guns for?
Feh, nothing that a little mass panic and pandemonium can't handle.
I seem to remember a scene where the bugs were shooting these blue asteroid things from their asses. They actually exerted enough force to make it into suborbital altitudes and hit the army transport ships. I'm sure after eating a few cans of beans, they'd be able to launch one across the entire galaxy and hit, a city on Earth without hitting anything on the way, and timed perfectly to Earth's orbit and rotation.
This is only going to prevent net stations from getting as big as their airwave counterparts. Like the futile war on (some) drugs, it will simply push fair users underground and off the industry's collective radars. Also, as some other posters mentioned, this could be a big break for music that isn't signed to a major label. Folks that rely on net streams to get music at work and school may have some good taste forced down their throats for once :)
For single items, or a few small items, newegg is cheaper. For a whole system, you might be better off at mwave.
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 12:26:45 -0700
To: ombudsman@npr.org
Subject: Link Permission Request
Hello,
It is trivial to tell your webserver to check the referring page of a
visitor. If the visitor is referred to npr.org from an address that is
*not* npr.org, you can deny them access, or redirect them to a page
explaining why npr.org does not allow hyperlinks.
While this is really lame, it would address your bandwidth cost concerns
without resorting to such ineffectual assertions that linking is
"prohibited". That's wishful thinking.
Love,
Jason
ButitsURLisonit.
Except, in my opinion, (and I don't think I'm alone here) the current state of P2P sucks butt. There was nothing cooler than firing up Napster on my cablemodem and finding everything I was looking for. Now, you've got these decentralized P2P networks to contend with, which are generally slow and unwieldy. Sure, there are client-server apps like eDonkey and Direct Connect, but that model existed before Napster (Hotline, anyone?) and is not going to fill the hole anytime soon.
Okay, maybe I'm an idiot, but the "female" samples on that site are the exact same size. They also differ in only one place in the file.
"Same shit, different day."