I don't know how far you want to take your thesis regarding the impact of technological reliance and the environment, but I would look at labor statistics for as far back as you can find. Basically look at what percentage of the populous is working in given industries. As our focus as become more and more technologically oriented, I think you will find a dramatic shift in the number of those who work in agriculture to those who work in technology. Now check legislative records relating to land use and agricultural issues. Again I think you will find a correlation between the demographic shift of workers with the areas of greater legislation. Now check your pollution levels and see how they are correllated to the above two. I would submit that you will find that as we have become further removed from our agrarian roots, that pollution has increased and that legislation has been enacted to make use of our natural resources in more liberal ways. The further from the land we have moved, the more we are willing to allow the land to suffer because we do not see the impact.
What will surprise you, I think, is that the factor for this is not a technological one as high tech, per se, but one of industry. It is the advent of the assembly line and small consumer products that has lead to our environmental doom, and if we look to how things were done before then, we might better find solutions to what we need to do now.
Just imagine if they were combined:-) Rangers with light Sabres and Elvish heavy cruisers. Plus you could great names like Darth IronHeart and Gimli Skywalker!
I had a friend who used white text on a black background because he said ti helped with his eye strain. My reaction was not quite corkscrews, maybe more like sewing needles;-)
I also heard that, borrowing from George Lucas' anti-photocopying technique, windows will employ the famous red font on red background method of making your secure information safe.
They will also happily let you know which information they think you ought to keep secure I'm sure;-)
So for the same investment of $100 over the years you could have had anywhere from 1meg to 1 terraflop of crap on your computer. Same low price, a million times the crap!
Yeah! Technology really is making our lives better!
I cannot help wondering if the slump in the computer industry is partly due to the increasingly small returns in technology. While you can get a gajillion meg hard drive and a bazillion megs of ram along with a quintillion of mhz processor, can your mom really see an increase in performance? Does her e-mail to grandma get typed any faster? Does her word processor show huge performance increases over her old system? Does solitaire blaze along faster than ever?
I think the biggest reason why the industry is slumping is that most of the people who want a computer at home have one. It does what they need it to and they do not have a compelling reason to blow $1,000 every year or two to keep up with technology. Year before the year before lasts computer is fast enough and reliable enough for what they need. I don't think HP cloning Apple with M$ software embedded in it is going to make them change their mind.
For the geeks, however, the extra horsepower is used probably as much as it is desired. These same people, however, are the least likely to want to be bundled to M$. I think M$ would be better served to make what they have work without the requisite ripping out of hair every few days.
At the end of 2001, the Astronaut finds this huge black slab orbiting Jupiter. On his space walk he looks down and sees tons of stars in it. To which he gasps, "Oh my god, its full of stars!".
Having a brain that randomly shifts gears into "Pun Mode" all of its own accord, I find that quote going through my head whenever I hear or see something about SARS. My guess is that its funny to like.00000000001 percent of the overall population. Slightly higher for/.;-)
Am I the only one who, when seeing a headline with SARS in it, automatically pictures an astronaut floating in space over a large monolith saying, "Oh my god, its full of SARS!"
I agree with you. There is so much potential here to really give a glimpse into how the Federation unfolds itself, and how Earth began its first steps into space. You could have a all sorts of folks die every week (think Red Shorts and the transporter;-) and each time a new lesson, a new piece of the canon is solidified.
The problem, I think, comes straight from Berman. I think he is doing everything he can to erase the old ST since he did not have anything to do with it. He is trying to make TNG canon and is working all of the shows fit with that timeline, including Enterprise. My guess is that he does not realize that the core popularity of ST comes from ST itself, not TNG, or DS9, or Voyager. If Enterprise had been more representative of the timeline, if it had, in other words, set up ST instead of TNG, then it would have been a walk away hit.
Guess my initial impression that he's just a typical in over his head poodle fscker turned out to be more on point that I would have liked.
When I first read this and thought about the flickering ads it reminded me of the Simpson's epsiode in which they go to Japan and all have a seziure while watching a cartoon.
Now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure that Brain tried a similar technique to take over the world. Maybe this is merely the first step in his dastardly plan!
That's certainly one way to discourage traffic at your site. Maybe they should make sure it flickers through a whole bunch of colors really, really fast just to make sure that no one will come back. Oh yeah, and don't forget really loud obnoxious sound either. The advertising trifecta of annoyance!
In this case though, I've not seen the picture mind you, but gargolyes, I believe technically, are water spouts. So in this case, being technically correct, Mr. Vader is probably a grotesque.
You are correct. Gargoyles incorporate drain spouts into their design, Grotesques are, well, merely that.
Your analogy is, however, incorrect. The difference is not that they both stole, the difference is in the process. The CEO of Enron was placed under house arrest through a judicial process. The subpoenas issued to Verizon were done so without a judicial process. That is the argument.
The quote from verizon's counsel says it best, "It's virtually unprecedented in U.S. law that someone can use a form to find out your identity without any judicial process."
Ever listen to Cage? I was subjected to it in music class. I think some strong arguments can be made on whether or not it is "music".
Art, in any medium, is always subject to the whims of the observers persepective. For my art classes in college I developed the Chainsaw Theory of Art. If a chainsaw taken to the work does not change it appreciably, or make an obvious difference (ie, someone viewing it after you is not inclined to say "Wow, looks like someone took a chainsaw to it."), than it is most likely not art.
As with many theories, it does have some shortcomings and I would recommend it as more of a first step than definitive guide;-)
2:00am? You were lucky. When I was young we had to get up two hours before we went to bed, clean the lake, and go to work recording videos on CD's made from rotten jellyfish.
It looks like the re-entry orbital vehicle borrowed heavily from the NASA program on rentry. Cool to see another application of the technology!
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I have been to several Air Museums, but have not yet made it to Wright-Patterson. I cannot wait to get there now!
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The factsheet for the U2 gives a top speed of Mach.58 and a ceiling in excess of 70,000ft. They are very cool and very much still in service.
The Valkyrie bomber is simply too cool for words. Six afterburning engines, all in a row, with wing tips that droop down in flight for stability at Mach 3+ speeds. Did you ever see the video of the Valkyrie crash? I think it is Super Sabre that gets sucked up by the Valyries wake causing both planes to go down. All for an effin' PR shoot! Effin' marketers!
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I don't know how far you want to take your thesis regarding the impact of technological reliance and the environment, but I would look at labor statistics for as far back as you can find. Basically look at what percentage of the populous is working in given industries. As our focus as become more and more technologically oriented, I think you will find a dramatic shift in the number of those who work in agriculture to those who work in technology. Now check legislative records relating to land use and agricultural issues. Again I think you will find a correlation between the demographic shift of workers with the areas of greater legislation. Now check your pollution levels and see how they are correllated to the above two. I would submit that you will find that as we have become further removed from our agrarian roots, that pollution has increased and that legislation has been enacted to make use of our natural resources in more liberal ways. The further from the land we have moved, the more we are willing to allow the land to suffer because we do not see the impact.
What will surprise you, I think, is that the factor for this is not a technological one as high tech, per se, but one of industry. It is the advent of the assembly line and small consumer products that has lead to our environmental doom, and if we look to how things were done before then, we might better find solutions to what we need to do now.
Best of luck!
Or not...
I had a friend who used white text on a black background because he said ti helped with his eye strain. My reaction was not quite corkscrews, maybe more like sewing needles;-)
They will also happily let you know which information they think you ought to keep secure I'm sure;-)
Yeah! Technology really is making our lives better!
I heard that they are working on a new project called Skynet or something like. Something along the lines of an AI to help protect us...
I think the biggest reason why the industry is slumping is that most of the people who want a computer at home have one. It does what they need it to and they do not have a compelling reason to blow $1,000 every year or two to keep up with technology. Year before the year before lasts computer is fast enough and reliable enough for what they need. I don't think HP cloning Apple with M$ software embedded in it is going to make them change their mind.
For the geeks, however, the extra horsepower is used probably as much as it is desired. These same people, however, are the least likely to want to be bundled to M$. I think M$ would be better served to make what they have work without the requisite ripping out of hair every few days.
Another $.02 into poverty...
What's the difference between a /. girlfriend and an elephant?
About 200lbs!
How do you make them the same?
Put the Elephant on a diet!
Ah yes, humor at its worst...
Looks like a bad math day for me all around! Well, that's probably why I ended up a LawSo major..
Look for the nanotech robots to save the day!
Having a brain that randomly shifts gears into "Pun Mode" all of its own accord, I find that quote going through my head whenever I hear or see something about SARS. My guess is that its funny to like .00000000001 percent of the overall population. Slightly higher for /. ;-)
Yep. Figured I was alone.
The problem, I think, comes straight from Berman. I think he is doing everything he can to erase the old ST since he did not have anything to do with it. He is trying to make TNG canon and is working all of the shows fit with that timeline, including Enterprise. My guess is that he does not realize that the core popularity of ST comes from ST itself, not TNG, or DS9, or Voyager. If Enterprise had been more representative of the timeline, if it had, in other words, set up ST instead of TNG, then it would have been a walk away hit.
Guess my initial impression that he's just a typical in over his head poodle fscker turned out to be more on point that I would have liked.
Now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure that Brain tried a similar technique to take over the world. Maybe this is merely the first step in his dastardly plan!
That's certainly one way to discourage traffic at your site. Maybe they should make sure it flickers through a whole bunch of colors really, really fast just to make sure that no one will come back. Oh yeah, and don't forget really loud obnoxious sound either. The advertising trifecta of annoyance!
Oh wait, that was a different lip reading session...
You are correct. Gargoyles incorporate drain spouts into their design, Grotesques are, well, merely that.
The quote from verizon's counsel says it best, "It's virtually unprecedented in U.S. law that someone can use a form to find out your identity without any judicial process."
Art, in any medium, is always subject to the whims of the observers persepective. For my art classes in college I developed the Chainsaw Theory of Art. If a chainsaw taken to the work does not change it appreciably, or make an obvious difference (ie, someone viewing it after you is not inclined to say "Wow, looks like someone took a chainsaw to it."), than it is most likely not art.
As with many theories, it does have some shortcomings and I would recommend it as more of a first step than definitive guide;-)
What about movies told through video games? Like Bloodgulch?
2:00am? You were lucky. When I was young we had to get up two hours before we went to bed, clean the lake, and go to work recording videos on CD's made from rotten jellyfish.
It looks like the re-entry orbital vehicle borrowed heavily from the NASA program on rentry. Cool to see another application of the technology!
I have been to several Air Museums, but have not yet made it to Wright-Patterson. I cannot wait to get there now!
The Valkyrie bomber is simply too cool for words. Six afterburning engines, all in a row, with wing tips that droop down in flight for stability at Mach 3+ speeds. Did you ever see the video of the Valkyrie crash? I think it is Super Sabre that gets sucked up by the Valyries wake causing both planes to go down. All for an effin' PR shoot! Effin' marketers!
Sounds like a very cool book. Do you have a cite?