Cause it's only the chinese that spy on other countries cause the rest of us are all friends and friends don't spy on eachother... oh wait... Seems that red paranoia have had a bit of a colour change.
Sure this might be software related so it's write once - copy everywhere but would you really want to do that. Cause if you plant it everywhere, "everyone" will have it leading to a larger chanse it will be found and out blow the entire operation out of the water. But have they really ever found any evidence for this on a large scale? Seems overly complex and prone to failure. Sure if you bug a phone, switch or whatever that is one thing but to plant it in every single device you ship. That would or could seriously mess with the profit margin and nobody is going to stand for that.
If you didn't build it yourself perhaps this is just the risk you run.
Something tells me that a UCLA student knows how to make a duplicate of a video...
1. Go to lab. 2. Make copy of video to watch whenever you want. If you can watch it, you can copy it. (3. profit? oh wait that would be wrong and illegal... unless knowledge is its own reward or perhaps knowing to much is illegal to)
Slightly more work then just straight to home streaming but a minor hickup in the grand scheme of things.
Not to ruin the funny but I was horribly bored so here goes...
ZAP: Philip J. Fry, you stand accused of travelling to the forbidden planet Omega 3. A crime punishable by 12 concurrent death sentences. Do you understand the charges? KIF; One beep for yes, two beeps for no. FRY: *BEEP* ZAP: Yes. So noted. You pleed guilty? FRY: *BEEP* *BEEP* ZAP: Double Yes. Guilty. I will now carry out the sentence...
It's the first minute and a half or so from the episode "Where no fan has gone before" if someone is wondering.
It is an ok game, I prefer Dragon Age tho. Mostly due to them little mini-games. The "hacking" and door opening pair matching once are fine cause they are done very quickly. But the resource gathering planet probing gets OLD really fast. Certainly after seeing what some of the things cost to buy/research (medic bay for 50k plat comes to mind). It's not WOW (or some other MMO) there is no need for insane time sinks like that. Also using space to skip and start the dialogue options might not have been the best usage of keys.
Since most police officers in the UK dont carry firearms this would or could be a faster response then sending out the Armed response vehicles. So I do wonder how long it will take them to arm the drones, after all what harm could that possibly do... That way you can stop all them tractor thieves and cashpoint burglers dead in the their tracks.
Find a large square in the capital, occupy it with thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of people for a few weeks and you don't think the government will clear it? They probably wont run you over with a tank cause they don't fancy that making the news, on the other hand I don't really think their plan was to run people over with tanks either it sort of just happened to play out that way.
But if the government is, fearing, loosing control (communist dictarorships falling like dominos in the late 80's) they are most likely going to do whatever it takes to uphold order and regain control of the situation.
I think I could live in China, I'd adapt. You learn what to do and say and live with it. The wonder of being human.
I don't belive this is a religious hickup in anyway. There isn't really anything (or much of anything) in eastern philosophy that have our (abrahamic) sexual hickups. I think it's a relic from the communist past and the cultural revolution.
Everyone should be equal etc etc. So women shouldn't be "sex objects" but instead the same as the men - workers. So in uniform and reading maos little red while not out plowing the fields instead of thinking naughty subversive thoughts.
I could be totally wrong tho. They probably just keep it up now for the sake of "morality", a foundation that is probably starting to crack and crumble.
"Evil" is highly subjective. Are they really that evil? They, as far as I can tell, are just not that sneaky about it. They don't seem as preoccupied with not getting caught as our politicos are. So they just do it and then put out the usual lines; "protecting the public" "morality of the people" "think of the children" etc etc. Pretty much the same reasons we get to hear whenever one of our governments do something.
I'm fairly sure we can see thru this bullsh*t just as the billion chinese can. What I find interesting tho is that our governments keep pointing the chinese for being "evil" as a sort of diversion tactic (as in BE HAPPY YOU DONT LIVE THERE!... ). Perhaps they do the same, I never really bothered to check.
Those redo(again)/undo/cut/copy/paste keys already exists on some keyboards from SUN (and probably others server hardware makers). They had 10 (2 cols 5 rows) or so extra keys on the left side of the keyboard, sort of like an opposite num key pad. Somehow they didn't catch on for "personal" usage but once you get used to them it's fairly handy. Problem is that it's not really a time saver if you work on many systesm and some dont have them. So I guess they sort of extincted themselves.
The people in the market segment for the Lenovo Laptops probably don't need the SysRq button (nor Print Screen). I'm fairly sure you could remove a bunch of other buttons they don't need beyond that one to. 12 function keys? the "Scroll Lock" and "Pause/Break" probably doesn't do much either - but they might already be gone.
The question is what are you going to replace them with? I don't really need a shortcut button to check my email or whatever either. Plus removing keys and moving them around really screws up the layout and has a serious negative impact on my type-speed.
Why not? The copyright system seems borked beyond belief. If Disney can keep it on Mickey (*1928) and [insert studio name here] on [old movie/record/whatever here] or [dead person] retaining theirs via some company or whatever. So that stuff clearly gets extended beyond time.
That said, a country retaining C on a "long dead" culture from 500-700 years ago that just happened to live in the area? That seems to be stretching it. But if it is the case then whom do I talk to about getting some cash from the Minnesota Vikings?
That is cause the non-math people think that math is pretty much just what they learned in elementary school. There are just bigger numbers and lots of that "X" stuff.
Why cant things just be ENTERTAINMENT anymore? Why does there have to be "hidden subtexts" in every single piece of entertainment around, be it music-tv-movies-art-whatever. Nothing can apparently be made just for the pure entertainment anymore. Unless stated, by the writers, before release and review that it is the case all these hidden message stuff is mostly just bollocks and self-deluding interpretations.
Anti-Tech "themes"? You can pretty much find substance for whatever damn "themes" you please in that movie concidering its lenght if you just look hard enough.
But technology wise as a product it was "check out the cool stuff we can do now! - a three hour tribute to technology". With enough cash and the computing power it buys this is now what we can do. If you want to talk about the story or moral of the movie it was as far as I'm concerned not about anti-tech at all. It wasn't the technology that made the humans "evil". If anything it was a story about power and greed and the bad stuff following in its wake. The possible outcome of coveting and trying to grab other peoples stuff -- be they here on earth or giant blue aliens on a planet far far away.
But what is really asked of us here is that we should belive that the writers that couldn't even come up with a better name then "Unobtainium" for their rare and super expensive ore have the depth for putting hidden anti-tech and pro treehugging messages in their movie? Well atleast they didn't call it greedium, but I guess that would have been to obivous.
If one want to go into things that didn't make sense in the movie tho I think the list can be made long. Such as; Why did the robot/exo-skeleton have a knife? It had the servo and shock absorption to jump from a "helicopter" (that looked more like a flying barn) and could break stuff left and right like it was twigs but had to pull out a knife? How and why did the stone/mountains fly/hover like that? Why was every single piece of vegetation glowing in the dark? What would be the biological benefit of that? Are the plants afraid of the dark? I guess the last two was cause they could and it looked cool. So upon nothing that I think you shouldn't read to much into anything but just enjoy it for the fun movie experience that it was.
I don't really get some of these tests, what exactlly is high iq about ripping apart and rephrasing poorly worded math basic problems? They are trying to trick you and that is what you are figuring out and once you know that then it's quite easy.
"1) A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?"
So the bat doesn't cost $1, that was the "trick" part. It cost $1+x and the ball cost x and the total is $1.10; 1+x+x=1.10; 2x=0.10 x=0.05; The ball is 5 cents.
"2) If it takes five machines 5 minutes to make five widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?"
Read it, seprate it and figure out that it takes 1 machine 5 minutes to make 1 widget. 5 machines running at the same time for 5 minutes make 5 widgets. So 100 machines will require 5 minutes to make 100 widgets.
"3) In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of it?"
Just count backwards, it shrinks to half the previous day so you just move backwards so on day 48 it was full, 47 half, 46 a quarter...
Have the school system become so crap that people can't even figure this out? Is "high iq" just about solving other peoples crappy word problems?
I recall some basic math courses and the teacher was trying to be funny as some kinda thought experiment and wrote them down on the board. It took a few moments to figure out but once you figure out what they are looking for it's simple. But without context I guess it would have taken a while longer.
complete the sequence... ottffss complete the sequence... zzoottfe
I know it might sound totally crazy but can't we just you know... build more of these tubes and then connect them to the other series of tubes so the interweb tube system doesn't fill up so fast.
Slashdot Mirror
Cause he, alone, secretly rules the world! OMG! He is the new world order! He has finally put him plan into motion.
Cause it's only the chinese that spy on other countries cause the rest of us are all friends and friends don't spy on eachother ... oh wait ... Seems that red paranoia have had a bit of a colour change.
Sure this might be software related so it's write once - copy everywhere but would you really want to do that. Cause if you plant it everywhere, "everyone" will have it leading to a larger chanse it will be found and out blow the entire operation out of the water. But have they really ever found any evidence for this on a large scale? Seems overly complex and prone to failure. Sure if you bug a phone, switch or whatever that is one thing but to plant it in every single device you ship. That would or could seriously mess with the profit margin and nobody is going to stand for that.
If you didn't build it yourself perhaps this is just the risk you run.
Something tells me that a UCLA student knows how to make a duplicate of a video ...
1. Go to lab. ... unless knowledge is its own reward or perhaps knowing to much is illegal to)
2. Make copy of video to watch whenever you want. If you can watch it, you can copy it.
(3. profit? oh wait that would be wrong and illegal
Slightly more work then just straight to home streaming but a minor hickup in the grand scheme of things.
Not to ruin the funny but I was horribly bored so here goes ...
ZAP: Philip J. Fry, you stand accused of travelling to the forbidden planet Omega 3. A crime punishable by 12 concurrent death sentences. Do you understand the charges? ...
KIF; One beep for yes, two beeps for no.
FRY: *BEEP*
ZAP: Yes. So noted. You pleed guilty?
FRY: *BEEP* *BEEP*
ZAP: Double Yes. Guilty. I will now carry out the sentence
It's the first minute and a half or so from the episode "Where no fan has gone before" if someone is wondering.
It is an ok game, I prefer Dragon Age tho. Mostly due to them little mini-games. The "hacking" and door opening pair matching once are fine cause they are done very quickly. But the resource gathering planet probing gets OLD really fast. Certainly after seeing what some of the things cost to buy/research (medic bay for 50k plat comes to mind). It's not WOW (or some other MMO) there is no need for insane time sinks like that. Also using space to skip and start the dialogue options might not have been the best usage of keys.
Since most police officers in the UK dont carry firearms this would or could be a faster response then sending out the Armed response vehicles. So I do wonder how long it will take them to arm the drones, after all what harm could that possibly do ... That way you can stop all them tractor thieves and cashpoint burglers dead in the their tracks.
Find a large square in the capital, occupy it with thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of people for a few weeks and you don't think the government will clear it? They probably wont run you over with a tank cause they don't fancy that making the news, on the other hand I don't really think their plan was to run people over with tanks either it sort of just happened to play out that way.
But if the government is, fearing, loosing control (communist dictarorships falling like dominos in the late 80's) they are most likely going to do whatever it takes to uphold order and regain control of the situation.
I think I could live in China, I'd adapt. You learn what to do and say and live with it. The wonder of being human.
I don't belive this is a religious hickup in anyway. There isn't really anything (or much of anything) in eastern philosophy that have our (abrahamic) sexual hickups. I think it's a relic from the communist past and the cultural revolution.
Everyone should be equal etc etc. So women shouldn't be "sex objects" but instead the same as the men - workers. So in uniform and reading maos little red while not out plowing the fields instead of thinking naughty subversive thoughts.
I could be totally wrong tho. They probably just keep it up now for the sake of "morality", a foundation that is probably starting to crack and crumble.
"Evil" is highly subjective. Are they really that evil? They, as far as I can tell, are just not that sneaky about it. They don't seem as preoccupied with not getting caught as our politicos are. So they just do it and then put out the usual lines; "protecting the public" "morality of the people" "think of the children" etc etc. Pretty much the same reasons we get to hear whenever one of our governments do something.
I'm fairly sure we can see thru this bullsh*t just as the billion chinese can. What I find interesting tho is that our governments keep pointing the chinese for being "evil" as a sort of diversion tactic (as in BE HAPPY YOU DONT LIVE THERE! ... ). Perhaps they do the same, I never really bothered to check.
No. They live in China, they don't have your fancy 1st Amendment.
Lofwyr doesn't take kindly to puny humans like you.
Those redo(again)/undo/cut/copy/paste keys already exists on some keyboards from SUN (and probably others server hardware makers). They had 10 (2 cols 5 rows) or so extra keys on the left side of the keyboard, sort of like an opposite num key pad. Somehow they didn't catch on for "personal" usage but once you get used to them it's fairly handy. Problem is that it's not really a time saver if you work on many systesm and some dont have them. So I guess they sort of extincted themselves.
The people in the market segment for the Lenovo Laptops probably don't need the SysRq button (nor Print Screen). I'm fairly sure you could remove a bunch of other buttons they don't need beyond that one to. 12 function keys? the "Scroll Lock" and "Pause/Break" probably doesn't do much either - but they might already be gone.
The question is what are you going to replace them with? I don't really need a shortcut button to check my email or whatever either. Plus removing keys and moving them around really screws up the layout and has a serious negative impact on my type-speed.
InfraGard was the topic on Jesse Venturas Conspiracy Theory
http://www.conspiracytheoryjesseventura.com/category/season-1-episode-4-big-brother/
Perhaps the usual conspiracy theory blahblah but they did really seem fairly creepy with all the "information gathering".
... I'm not some fancy big shot lawyer. But ...
Why not? The copyright system seems borked beyond belief. If Disney can keep it on Mickey (*1928) and [insert studio name here] on [old movie/record/whatever here] or [dead person] retaining theirs via some company or whatever. So that stuff clearly gets extended beyond time.
That said, a country retaining C on a "long dead" culture from 500-700 years ago that just happened to live in the area? That seems to be stretching it. But if it is the case then whom do I talk to about getting some cash from the Minnesota Vikings?
That is cause the non-math people think that math is pretty much just what they learned in elementary school. There are just bigger numbers and lots of that "X" stuff.
Never. So I guess this will finally put the debate to an end; final verdict is in ... Picard > Kirk. ... I know ... Wishful thinking ...
Why cant things just be ENTERTAINMENT anymore? Why does there have to be "hidden subtexts" in every single piece of entertainment around, be it music-tv-movies-art-whatever. Nothing can apparently be made just for the pure entertainment anymore. Unless stated, by the writers, before release and review that it is the case all these hidden message stuff is mostly just bollocks and self-deluding interpretations.
Anti-Tech "themes"? You can pretty much find substance for whatever damn "themes" you please in that movie concidering its lenght if you just look hard enough.
But technology wise as a product it was "check out the cool stuff we can do now! - a three hour tribute to technology". With enough cash and the computing power it buys this is now what we can do. If you want to talk about the story or moral of the movie it was as far as I'm concerned not about anti-tech at all. It wasn't the technology that made the humans "evil". If anything it was a story about power and greed and the bad stuff following in its wake. The possible outcome of coveting and trying to grab other peoples stuff -- be they here on earth or giant blue aliens on a planet far far away.
But what is really asked of us here is that we should belive that the writers that couldn't even come up with a better name then "Unobtainium" for their rare and super expensive ore have the depth for putting hidden anti-tech and pro treehugging messages in their movie? Well atleast they didn't call it greedium, but I guess that would have been to obivous.
If one want to go into things that didn't make sense in the movie tho I think the list can be made long. Such as; Why did the robot/exo-skeleton have a knife? It had the servo and shock absorption to jump from a "helicopter" (that looked more like a flying barn) and could break stuff left and right like it was twigs but had to pull out a knife? How and why did the stone/mountains fly/hover like that? Why was every single piece of vegetation glowing in the dark? What would be the biological benefit of that? Are the plants afraid of the dark? I guess the last two was cause they could and it looked cool. So upon nothing that I think you shouldn't read to much into anything but just enjoy it for the fun movie experience that it was.
I don't really get some of these tests, what exactlly is high iq about ripping apart and rephrasing poorly worded math basic problems? They are trying to trick you and that is what you are figuring out and once you know that then it's quite easy.
"1) A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?"
So the bat doesn't cost $1, that was the "trick" part. It cost $1+x and the ball cost x and the total is $1.10; 1+x+x=1.10; 2x=0.10 x=0.05; The ball is 5 cents.
"2) If it takes five machines 5 minutes to make five widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?"
Read it, seprate it and figure out that it takes 1 machine 5 minutes to make 1 widget. 5 machines running at the same time for 5 minutes make 5 widgets. So 100 machines will require 5 minutes to make 100 widgets.
"3) In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of it?"
Just count backwards, it shrinks to half the previous day so you just move backwards so on day 48 it was full, 47 half, 46 a quarter ...
Have the school system become so crap that people can't even figure this out? Is "high iq" just about solving other peoples crappy word problems?
I recall some basic math courses and the teacher was trying to be funny as some kinda thought experiment and wrote them down on the board. It took a few moments to figure out but once you figure out what they are looking for it's simple. But without context I guess it would have taken a while longer.
complete the sequence ... ottffss ... zzoottfe
complete the sequence
Feel the brain swell!
I for one welcome our new carnivorous galaxy overlords ... or whatever that other puny galaxy is made out of.
But perhaps it's just some twisted form of galactic Darwinism, the weak die (or get consumed or whatever) while the big and buff galaxies prospers.
Alternativly perhaps space isn't even really endless at all but instead quite finite and Andromeda just needed some galactic lebensraum?
They do this "experiment" several times a year and they all come to the same conclusion; OHH WE FOUND THE SECRET DATA!
So is it really even news anymore? Shouldn't the new really be "We learned nothing since last time!".
I know it might sound totally crazy but can't we just you know ... build more of these tubes and then connect them to the other series of tubes so the interweb tube system doesn't fill up so fast.
I'm very disappointed. A silly game. I thought they had finally managed to resurrect John Wayne!
So this is how they are going to put a laptop in the hands of every elementary school pupil ... confiscate them from tourists :p
Please let one of the options be to send Ben Affleck into space. He has experience.