I looked but it didn't have enough details for me. The AC down there pretty much confirmed what I thought it must have been given what I know about what technology was possible back then.
Was the video itself on the disc digital? I doubt it. The control was computerized, fine. Also, was this system for editing *movies*? How would the resolution be good enough for projecting on a screen? I would rather find out the specifics of the system.
So you don't use any technology to make your life easier? Maybe someone from the 17th century would think you're the lazy fuck? Let's make a deal: you work as hard as you want to support your illusions, I'll work as little as possible to do what I want to do.
How glorious! We're surrounded by technology and what do we do! Find ways to work MORE and more OFTEN! What are you working on? What are you producing? Where is all this work going? What happened to the leisure society?
People still read that infomercial rag? I recall 20 years ago SA still had relevant and interesting articles, but recently, it's just a rag filled with dodgy adverts for gimmicky watches and questionable "science" cruises...
Since I am stupid, I need to ask: if you have no neutrons flying out of the center, what are you going to capture to get that thermal energy to boil water to spin a turbine? Helium nuclei? Isn't that a big problem?
Could it be these "data miners" are just snake oil voodoo salesmen that are selling a comforting vision to companies? Has anyone ever done any double-blind studies to determine if companies that use this data actually benefit from it? Or is it just part of the modern cult of corporate "wisdom" that must never be questioned?
Or is one wrong data point in what is essentially demographic data irrelevant? Sort of like one athlete with an "obese" BMI doesn't invalidate the concept of BMI on the whole?
I've noticed that with the shoddy and fragile construction endemic in North American residences, it's not worth putting a fancy lock on things. You can kick the door in with one kick from a polio victim. Or with just a bit more force you can punch down the drywall and fake facade.
except for a few times a day. You can't hold your arm up all day like that. This lesson keeps getting learned every few years or so, going all the way back to the first light pen on the SAGE. It was called Gorilla Arm back then.
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I looked but it didn't have enough details for me. The AC down there pretty much confirmed what I thought it must have been given what I know about what technology was possible back then.
Was the video itself on the disc digital? I doubt it. The control was computerized, fine. Also, was this system for editing *movies*? How would the resolution be good enough for projecting on a screen? I would rather find out the specifics of the system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jisK5gX8X_g
It's called Scotch Whisky. Just another gift from the Scots. That and logarithms and engineers. (Oh and haggis!)
That's why all your goods are manufactured in China and Bangladesh? That's why you work so many hours? Because you "produce" so much?
So you don't use any technology to make your life easier? Maybe someone from the 17th century would think you're the lazy fuck? Let's make a deal: you work as hard as you want to support your illusions, I'll work as little as possible to do what I want to do.
How glorious! We're surrounded by technology and what do we do! Find ways to work MORE and more OFTEN! What are you working on? What are you producing? Where is all this work going? What happened to the leisure society?
Thanks for that, never heard of it and I tend to seek these things out.
People still read that infomercial rag? I recall 20 years ago SA still had relevant and interesting articles, but recently, it's just a rag filled with dodgy adverts for gimmicky watches and questionable "science" cruises...
Since I am stupid, I need to ask: if you have no neutrons flying out of the center, what are you going to capture to get that thermal energy to boil water to spin a turbine? Helium nuclei? Isn't that a big problem?
Oh you were that long before this.
No. The field is given with nothing in it; as soon as you put your body in it the field lines move around it.
Imagine the world we'd live in if the "Voyager" kind of engineer had more say in how society worked?
It ate one Sun per year for a billion years. Next question?
It pays to be the first when critical mass is achieved. Who remembers JCR Licklider?
Or is one wrong data point in what is essentially demographic data irrelevant? Sort of like one athlete with an "obese" BMI doesn't invalidate the concept of BMI on the whole?
Is it where the Wunderland Treatymaker was test fired?
in the menus. Hey, does pressing Windows + X blow your mind too? (on a laptop at least).
I, for one, hope it never breaks.
Oh you're from Montreal too?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryotron
What does this mean for the recipes on my fridge? Should I switch to suction cups?
I've noticed that with the shoddy and fragile construction endemic in North American residences, it's not worth putting a fancy lock on things. You can kick the door in with one kick from a polio victim. Or with just a bit more force you can punch down the drywall and fake facade.
Inuit aren't human?
except for a few times a day. You can't hold your arm up all day like that. This lesson keeps getting learned every few years or so, going all the way back to the first light pen on the SAGE. It was called Gorilla Arm back then.