Germany will fill the gap using dung fired power plants using all the horse crap from the state mandated horse based transportation system. Though of course, fossil fuel based transportation will remain available to citizens making above a certain amount of Deutschmarks and the political class since they have important business to conduct. All nice and tidy, and somewhere in all that crap, there's a pony!
The possibilities for creative mayhem with this are just delightful! I hope Charlie Sheen gets to voice Donald Duck in the animated movie! M...I....C.... "Wax you real soon" K... E....Y... "Why, because you're one dead Taliban!" M.....O....U.....S.....E.....!!!!! Got to go, off to think up radio call signs for Goofy, Minnie and Uncle Scrooge.
Total hype. Nothing will ever replace raw meat right off the bone! You mark my words. Cave paintings and mammoth blood should be good enough for anyone!
In a similar vein, the one bright spot in the total train wreck that was the Charlize Theron version of "Aeon Flux" was when she shoots a grappling hook at the giant air ship thingy and it bounces off. It is about time that happened to someone in one of these movies.
Can they learn to program on these things? Lego's and laptops are great, but I'm skeptical about the overall benefits of programs like these. Another problem is whether the kids really get to learn the fundamentals of the chips and hardware that go into these little OLPC's. What happens when the kids grow up and technology marches along to the next thing? Wouldn't it be better to be able to rent low cost OLPC's from a central source then take them back when you are done or the technology has been obsoleted? I guess I have visions of million OLPC piles of these computers ending up in Indonesian landfills.
It's just like a real live social network? Glad we wrapped this one up, experiment successful apparently. Besides, isn't it nice to know that the introverts need no longer be bothered by the popular extroverts taking up oxygen in the real world when they can be blathering away online or following celebrity blather? I think of it as a solution to the info sphere version of second hand smoke.
You would think well into the Post Gates era the folks at Microsoft would consider a little better how this type of thing looks? Nobody is going to win on this one. All parties involved could have met to negotiate on this and come to some type of agreement long before the legal firepower gets involved. I want to like Microsoft now that they've been taken to the woodshed several times by Google and Apple. Wil Wheaton says "Don't be a dick."
With things the way they are now. The public library is one of the few outposts of acceptance and quiet for extreme introverts like me and I don't buy the argument that soon they are going to be full of e-readers and everything will be on the web. There is advancement in technology but there will always be applying the best technology for the application. I'm sorry, but I will never take an e-reader to the beach with me. Sand, sun and water don't play well with it. A paperback book is going to persist forever in some form because they are an excellent fit for that application. And I can haul them around with me when I go for a run. So how about you leave the libraries alone? Cranberry flavored beer and no smoking everywhere is just fine. Child safe everything and RFID everywhere also. All I need is a nice library here and there, preferably in walking distance and maybe even a fireplace if that isn't too environmentally horrifying for you. I consider myself a reasonable person.
Right now we primarily use stuff like centrifugal particle size detectors (Shimadzu for example) and the Elzone (Electrical Sensing Zone) type systems to do particle sizing for micron size diamond and other small particulates. If this process can be adapted, we have a much more precise way of setting up different sizes of particles distributions because we can pull the different size particles individually into different dispersions. The possibilities for customization of different types of particle distributions could be very, very useful in abrasives engineering!
I still have two of those cases even though they are hopelessly impractical from several respects just because I love how awesome they look and nothing else looks like a Vento.
If a government archive ends up being the only place the original un-sullied version of Empire ends up existing. LucasFAIL!
"Hundreds of years from now, in the ruins of civilization, rumors reach the roving tribes of the over-nerd that a pure copy of the fabled 'Second War of the Stars' exists." A brave band of technomancers and their trusty and nubile amazons set out on a quest for this fabled item."
Let me explain, no there is too much, let me sum up.
Not that anyone will read this, but. The Internet is due to be split in half. We're going to see a corporate whitenet that is dominated by the Disney level content and major corporations for their purposes and that is regulated primarily by the FCC to provide all the legal protection those companies demand. Then we're going to see a greynet emerge that is fairly similar to the Internet we know and enjoy today though the corporations and government will have the power to roll in to clear the "thieves forest" with the "brute squad" any time they feel like it. Verizon probably ends up controlling most of the access to the greynet because of their excellent 1G and 3G usb internet connections through cell towers and it comes down to demand. Most people don't give a crap about the anarchy and freedom a small population on the Internet like techies wants and needs. Sorry folks, all frontiers end up being settled eventually. The next frontier is the merger of biological and digital technology. Have fun storming the castle! Think it'll work? It would take a miracle!
Anybody here actually done lithography? Its normally a pretty time intensive process to mask the die, then precisely etch the thing then clean that up and move on to the next step depending on how sophisticated the device is you are building. This process, if it works, basically helps knock out some of the intervening steps and speeds up the overall process using microwave radiation for curing. Of course, that's just my understanding (JMHU), I could be wrong.
It is my belief that this development speaks to the niche that twitter can best fit rather than any flaw in the underlying tool itself. For example, if I have a Nook or Ipad as my book reader, I can do a lot of different things with it and probably will buy fewer paper books to read since I can just read e-books. However, if I want to take something with me to the beach to read (because I usually run there or bike) I will probably take a paperback with me to read rather than my e-reader because the paperback is more durable and if it gets damaged I don't have a problem. Twitter is a very valuable tool if you are a celebrity or a public figure and you have a large number of people interested in what you are doing. It is totally pointless for someone like me who has a blog that averages about 200 hits a month and can easily send an e-mail or phone call to the three or so people who might be interested in what is up with me. I'm a hermit and proud of it. With the current web, we're in the process of fitting tools to the most effective use because doing so makes money. It is characteristic of most late stage technological societies. The next question is what will the next technological leap be? Or will we finally reach an economic singularity?
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Oh, wait...
Germany will fill the gap using dung fired power plants using all the horse crap from the state mandated horse based transportation system. Though of course, fossil fuel based transportation will remain available to citizens making above a certain amount of Deutschmarks and the political class since they have important business to conduct. All nice and tidy, and somewhere in all that crap, there's a pony!
The possibilities for creative mayhem with this are just delightful! I hope Charlie Sheen gets to voice Donald Duck in the animated movie! M...I....C.... "Wax you real soon" K... E....Y... "Why, because you're one dead Taliban!" M.....O....U.....S.....E.....!!!!! Got to go, off to think up radio call signs for Goofy, Minnie and Uncle Scrooge.
What are you? Some sort of special needs halfwit? Go back to your mother's panties and the basement.
They're my father's panties I'll have you know! For I am a Lumberjack!
Total hype. Nothing will ever replace raw meat right off the bone! You mark my words. Cave paintings and mammoth blood should be good enough for anyone!
I thought we were finally going to get the cookbook the blind folks who work at the CIA snack stand in Langley use. Total gyp.
Tonight on "Biography!"
In a similar vein, the one bright spot in the total train wreck that was the Charlize Theron version of "Aeon Flux" was when she shoots a grappling hook at the giant air ship thingy and it bounces off. It is about time that happened to someone in one of these movies.
Suffering from redundancy fatigue? Read my convoluted blog post about it. Won't you?
Can they learn to program on these things? Lego's and laptops are great, but I'm skeptical about the overall benefits of programs like these. Another problem is whether the kids really get to learn the fundamentals of the chips and hardware that go into these little OLPC's. What happens when the kids grow up and technology marches along to the next thing? Wouldn't it be better to be able to rent low cost OLPC's from a central source then take them back when you are done or the technology has been obsoleted? I guess I have visions of million OLPC piles of these computers ending up in Indonesian landfills.
It's just like a real live social network? Glad we wrapped this one up, experiment successful apparently. Besides, isn't it nice to know that the introverts need no longer be bothered by the popular extroverts taking up oxygen in the real world when they can be blathering away online or following celebrity blather? I think of it as a solution to the info sphere version of second hand smoke.
You would think well into the Post Gates era the folks at Microsoft would consider a little better how this type of thing looks? Nobody is going to win on this one. All parties involved could have met to negotiate on this and come to some type of agreement long before the legal firepower gets involved. I want to like Microsoft now that they've been taken to the woodshed several times by Google and Apple. Wil Wheaton says "Don't be a dick."
With things the way they are now. The public library is one of the few outposts of acceptance and quiet for extreme introverts like me and I don't buy the argument that soon they are going to be full of e-readers and everything will be on the web. There is advancement in technology but there will always be applying the best technology for the application. I'm sorry, but I will never take an e-reader to the beach with me. Sand, sun and water don't play well with it. A paperback book is going to persist forever in some form because they are an excellent fit for that application. And I can haul them around with me when I go for a run. So how about you leave the libraries alone? Cranberry flavored beer and no smoking everywhere is just fine. Child safe everything and RFID everywhere also. All I need is a nice library here and there, preferably in walking distance and maybe even a fireplace if that isn't too environmentally horrifying for you. I consider myself a reasonable person.
Right now we primarily use stuff like centrifugal particle size detectors (Shimadzu for example) and the Elzone (Electrical Sensing Zone) type systems to do particle sizing for micron size diamond and other small particulates. If this process can be adapted, we have a much more precise way of setting up different sizes of particles distributions because we can pull the different size particles individually into different dispersions. The possibilities for customization of different types of particle distributions could be very, very useful in abrasives engineering!
I still have two of those cases even though they are hopelessly impractical from several respects just because I love how awesome they look and nothing else looks like a Vento.
If a government archive ends up being the only place the original un-sullied version of Empire ends up existing. LucasFAIL!
"Hundreds of years from now, in the ruins of civilization, rumors reach the roving tribes of the over-nerd that a pure copy of the fabled 'Second War of the Stars' exists." A brave band of technomancers and their trusty and nubile amazons set out on a quest for this fabled item."
Let me explain, no there is too much, let me sum up.
Not that anyone will read this, but. The Internet is due to be split in half. We're going to see a corporate whitenet that is dominated by the Disney level content and major corporations for their purposes and that is regulated primarily by the FCC to provide all the legal protection those companies demand. Then we're going to see a greynet emerge that is fairly similar to the Internet we know and enjoy today though the corporations and government will have the power to roll in to clear the "thieves forest" with the "brute squad" any time they feel like it. Verizon probably ends up controlling most of the access to the greynet because of their excellent 1G and 3G usb internet connections through cell towers and it comes down to demand. Most people don't give a crap about the anarchy and freedom a small population on the Internet like techies wants and needs. Sorry folks, all frontiers end up being settled eventually. The next frontier is the merger of biological and digital technology. Have fun storming the castle! Think it'll work? It would take a miracle!
If this technology were readily available and one were to get in trouble with a significant female other?
"Honey! Let's talk about this! You can burn the baseball cards, but please, not my testicular insulin cultures!!!"
She'd literally have one, "by the balls" *rimshot*
You leave mein fuhrer out of this! I would point out this whole series of posts is very insensitive to Nazi's.
Anybody here actually done lithography? Its normally a pretty time intensive process to mask the die, then precisely etch the thing then clean that up and move on to the next step depending on how sophisticated the device is you are building. This process, if it works, basically helps knock out some of the intervening steps and speeds up the overall process using microwave radiation for curing. Of course, that's just my understanding (JMHU), I could be wrong.
If you're from the future, do you need H1-B Visa sponsorship? Or as long as I had citizenship in the past I could apply?
Chuck Norris
We have a close-up of a feature of the animals jaw we call the "durellitzer" after the late Gerard Durrell. *shudder* poor man.
It is my belief that this development speaks to the niche that twitter can best fit rather than any flaw in the underlying tool itself. For example, if I have a Nook or Ipad as my book reader, I can do a lot of different things with it and probably will buy fewer paper books to read since I can just read e-books. However, if I want to take something with me to the beach to read (because I usually run there or bike) I will probably take a paperback with me to read rather than my e-reader because the paperback is more durable and if it gets damaged I don't have a problem. Twitter is a very valuable tool if you are a celebrity or a public figure and you have a large number of people interested in what you are doing. It is totally pointless for someone like me who has a blog that averages about 200 hits a month and can easily send an e-mail or phone call to the three or so people who might be interested in what is up with me. I'm a hermit and proud of it. With the current web, we're in the process of fitting tools to the most effective use because doing so makes money. It is characteristic of most late stage technological societies. The next question is what will the next technological leap be? Or will we finally reach an economic singularity?
We'll apply the famous "Jayne Cobb" bargaining theory to this particular announcement
Will there be shootin? Hmm, didn't really say..
How about brawlin? Hmm, not specific as to how..
Well hell, will it not be gorram dull? Let me do the math here...
Nuthin, plus nuthin, minus nuthin..
I'll be in my bunk.