I think it more likely that the robots of the battlefields of the future will be more like the Ogre-class nuclear battletanks of the Steve Jackson games, leading the spearheads. I foresee human beings still roaming the battlefields, only in nuclear/biological/chemical/nano-proof hardened battledress. Essentially robots with a core processor that is also a human being. The stupidest person on earth still contains a computer more powerful than any that will ever be built (the brain), certainly for a price that makes it feasible to devote to combat.
Unless Peter Jackson directs all three, I'd rather have my eyes bored out by cockroaches. Wonder who Lucas has in mind to play the pathetic, sulky teen who grows up to be the next scourge of the universe.
While the MindStorms series was cool and all, Lego did themselves in by marrying themselves to the idiotic first trilogy of Star Wars. I haven't met an eight year old yet who thinks Episodes I and II are anything but crap. So now we're supposed to go and plunk down $20 for a Lego kit that can build... this stupid, doberman-headed droid thing that fought the frog people in Episode I... and nothing else. Great. And that's ALL they make now - MindStorms and THIS. If you scour the aisles at a Toys R Us, you might be lucky to find an old school castle kit or something, but for the most part, you're getting Star Wars, dammit. We paid millions for this license, and damned if we aren't ramming it up your butt until we make it back.
actually matter, until it's actionable to go after ther people who paid to have that spam sent? Somebody, somewhere writes a check to some spammer, in order to get their spam spammed. If that's not illegal, or at least actionable, then what's to stop Joe Spam Purveyor from paying somebody in a mud hut in Indonesia to spam the whole U.S. with his amazing MILF gallery?
"the average annual salary for Cravath partners is somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.0 million."
Dude I can name, like, ten jockeys who make twice that, and I've never watched a horse race in my life.
Then again, since the source of said salary, in Boise's case, is leeching off the hard work and productivity of the non-lawyerverse, I guess it's pretty good.
As opposed to the Atlantean Brilliance of the previous "administration," which, at last blush, was trying to figure out how to bankrupt Glock for the behavior of gangbangers who had stolen their products, sue McDonald's on behalf of The Fat, bar the Boy Scouts from public parks, and force Texans to pay the electric bills of Californians.
Oh, wait - that's what they're still doing, only without the sack to actually run on their real platform.
Pathetic.
I'm getting really unnerved watching so many people expect to be able to claim a defense because their sites dont use actual html frameset/frame tags to encapsulate their persistent navigation systems.
Museumtour.com DOES NOT USE FRAMES. It uses an html TABLE. It could use layers and absolute positioning. It could use an entirely separate WINDOW. Please get this clear - this patent has nothing to do with "frames." It's ANY manner of persistent navigation. The ENTIRE WORLD WIDE WEB is in violation of this alleged "patent," and it's a dire threat to the entire web INDUSTRY.
GET IT?!
So, what's going to be done about it? Who's the go-to for situations like this? The EFF? Why isn't a consortium of every other company with a web presence already being formed and ready to pour money into the legal defense of museumtour.com? Whom does one call?
I've yet to see any evidence that the "Wayback Machine" will be of any use whatsoever in proving prior art, as their archive seems to go back no further than late 1996. If anything, we will be lucky to find any personally archived projects that use the same concept.
Wouldn't the ancient technique of using server-side includes to embed a standard set of links onto every page of a site count as an example of prior art? E.g., the bottom of this page: http://web.archive.org/web/19961219232842/us.imdb. com/search
I'll be dragged kicking and screaming away from my server-embedded TCL modules and database connection pooling. Includes mapquest.com in its list of users, and that ain't hay.
I think space exploration will only become prevalent after the profit motive ceases to exist altogether. In "Star Trek" this was brought about by the advent of the transporter, or more accurately, the ability to manipulate matter on an atomic level to produce, well, anything. No more scarcity = no more profitability, so why not spend one's life pursuing interesting, rather than profitable, endeavors. In "real life," I cross my fingers that nanotech will bring about the same scenario, albeit likely not within my own lifetime. I do hope to live long enough to see a human being set foot on Mars, though.
I can appreciate that, except that De Niro and Harrelson are both huge, beefy specimens - more suited to Edison, actually - while Tesla was always this kind of thin, wispy, sickly little man with an obsessive germ phobia.
I don't think Depp would turn it into a cartoon, necessarily, unless Burton directed. Depp really does have the chops, witness "What's Eating Gilbert Grape."
Another interesting tidbit for inclusion would have to be Tesla's long and fairly close friendship with Mark Twain, of all people.
Want a pitch, a subject, and a title in one word? Okay...
TESLA
Most fascinating scientist in history, I think. Imagine Johnny Depp, in period costume, having a violent epileptic fit in Central Park, then half-consciously carving the diagram for the alternating current generator into the dirt with a stick. Then getting hounded by the government and lesser mortals the rest of his life, inventing everything of any consequence and getting no credit for it. Tragic story, Oscar material all the way.
Read "Man out of Time," if you haven't. And shame be unto you, for not having read it yet.
Potential tag lines: "The man who created the world," or "Never have so many owed so much... To one."
Potential final statement, white words on black screen:
"In 19XX, a federal appeals court ruled that Nikolai Tesla, and not Marconi, was the actual inventor of radio."
(cross-fade)
"The final Edison direct-current generator was taken offline in 19XX. No further experiment or trial in direct current residential voltage has ever been attemped."
(cross-fade)
"Fringe scientists continue to pursue Tesla's dream of providing free electricty to all peoples and places of the world via the Tesla Coil."
(cross-fade)
"The thousands of pages of handwritten notes produced throughout the final years of Tesla's life continue to be classified at the highest levels of secrecy ever assigned to any government document."
(cross-fade)
"It is extremely unlikely that any will ever be made public."
any demonstration in San Francisco = left-wing wacko rhetoric to the rest of the nation. Sorry, Bay Area, economically important you may be, but virtually all of the ideals you consider "normal" hold no currency West of your fair city.
A march on Washington, culminating in the presentation of a million-dollar campaign contribution to be spread amongst the opponents of several targetted Congresspersons, would be vastly more effective.
I have always wondered exactly what kind of super space material those damn "tow cables" were made of. Somehow strong enough so that three coils of that... um... black string could somehow stand up to the power of between four and sixteen massive hydraulic lifters. Uh... Yeah.
Theory: The black string was actually organic in nature, and infused with billions upon billions of mitichlorians. Hm... I should write for LucasArts.
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It's only because you are all too stupid that you can't fucking handle the cahnge.
No, it's only because we're so omnipotent, we don't have to.
I think it more likely that the robots of the battlefields of the future will be more like the Ogre-class nuclear battletanks of the Steve Jackson games, leading the spearheads. I foresee human beings still roaming the battlefields, only in nuclear/biological/chemical/nano-proof hardened battledress. Essentially robots with a core processor that is also a human being. The stupidest person on earth still contains a computer more powerful than any that will ever be built (the brain), certainly for a price that makes it feasible to devote to combat.
called "SkyNet."
Prototypical Killbots! AWESOME!
Unless Peter Jackson directs all three, I'd rather have my eyes bored out by cockroaches. Wonder who Lucas has in mind to play the pathetic, sulky teen who grows up to be the next scourge of the universe.
While the MindStorms series was cool and all, Lego did themselves in by marrying themselves to the idiotic first trilogy of Star Wars. I haven't met an eight year old yet who thinks Episodes I and II are anything but crap. So now we're supposed to go and plunk down $20 for a Lego kit that can build... this stupid, doberman-headed droid thing that fought the frog people in Episode I... and nothing else. Great. And that's ALL they make now - MindStorms and THIS. If you scour the aisles at a Toys R Us, you might be lucky to find an old school castle kit or something, but for the most part, you're getting Star Wars, dammit. We paid millions for this license, and damned if we aren't ramming it up your butt until we make it back.
Pass.
actually matter, until it's actionable to go after ther people who paid to have that spam sent? Somebody, somewhere writes a check to some spammer, in order to get their spam spammed. If that's not illegal, or at least actionable, then what's to stop Joe Spam Purveyor from paying somebody in a mud hut in Indonesia to spam the whole U.S. with his amazing MILF gallery?
"the average annual salary for Cravath partners is somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.0 million."
Dude I can name, like, ten jockeys who make twice that, and I've never watched a horse race in my life.
Then again, since the source of said salary, in Boise's case, is leeching off the hard work and productivity of the non-lawyerverse, I guess it's pretty good.
As opposed to the Atlantean Brilliance of the previous "administration," which, at last blush, was trying to figure out how to bankrupt Glock for the behavior of gangbangers who had stolen their products, sue McDonald's on behalf of The Fat, bar the Boy Scouts from public parks, and force Texans to pay the electric bills of Californians. Oh, wait - that's what they're still doing, only without the sack to actually run on their real platform. Pathetic.
Museumtour.com DOES NOT USE FRAMES. It uses an html TABLE. It could use layers and absolute positioning. It could use an entirely separate WINDOW. Please get this clear - this patent has nothing to do with "frames." It's ANY manner of persistent navigation. The ENTIRE WORLD WIDE WEB is in violation of this alleged "patent," and it's a dire threat to the entire web INDUSTRY.
GET IT?!
So, what's going to be done about it? Who's the go-to for situations like this? The EFF? Why isn't a consortium of every other company with a web presence already being formed and ready to pour money into the legal defense of museumtour.com? Whom does one call?
I've yet to see any evidence that the "Wayback Machine" will be of any use whatsoever in proving prior art, as their archive seems to go back no further than late 1996. If anything, we will be lucky to find any personally archived projects that use the same concept.
. com/search
Wouldn't the ancient technique of using server-side includes to embed a standard set of links onto every page of a site count as an example of prior art? E.g., the bottom of this page: http://web.archive.org/web/19961219232842/us.imdb
I'll be dragged kicking and screaming away from my server-embedded TCL modules and database connection pooling. Includes mapquest.com in its list of users, and that ain't hay.
I think space exploration will only become prevalent after the profit motive ceases to exist altogether. In "Star Trek" this was brought about by the advent of the transporter, or more accurately, the ability to manipulate matter on an atomic level to produce, well, anything. No more scarcity = no more profitability, so why not spend one's life pursuing interesting, rather than profitable, endeavors. In "real life," I cross my fingers that nanotech will bring about the same scenario, albeit likely not within my own lifetime. I do hope to live long enough to see a human being set foot on Mars, though.
jesus christ, Apple needs to start running that monkey-switch ad. That's too damn genius. Seriously!
I don't think Depp would turn it into a cartoon, necessarily, unless Burton directed. Depp really does have the chops, witness "What's Eating Gilbert Grape."
Another interesting tidbit for inclusion would have to be Tesla's long and fairly close friendship with Mark Twain, of all people.
Want a pitch, a subject, and a title in one word? Okay...
TESLA
Most fascinating scientist in history, I think. Imagine Johnny Depp, in period costume, having a violent epileptic fit in Central Park, then half-consciously carving the diagram for the alternating current generator into the dirt with a stick. Then getting hounded by the government and lesser mortals the rest of his life, inventing everything of any consequence and getting no credit for it. Tragic story, Oscar material all the way.
Read "Man out of Time," if you haven't. And shame be unto you, for not having read it yet.
Potential tag lines: "The man who created the world," or "Never have so many owed so much... To one."
Potential final statement, white words on black screen:
"In 19XX, a federal appeals court ruled that Nikolai Tesla, and not Marconi, was the actual inventor of radio."
(cross-fade)
"The final Edison direct-current generator was taken offline in 19XX. No further experiment or trial in direct current residential voltage has ever been attemped."
(cross-fade)
"Fringe scientists continue to pursue Tesla's dream of providing free electricty to all peoples and places of the world via the Tesla Coil."
(cross-fade)
"The thousands of pages of handwritten notes produced throughout the final years of Tesla's life continue to be classified at the highest levels of secrecy ever assigned to any government document."
(cross-fade)
"It is extremely unlikely that any will ever be made public."
any demonstration in San Francisco = left-wing wacko rhetoric to the rest of the nation. Sorry, Bay Area, economically important you may be, but virtually all of the ideals you consider "normal" hold no currency West of your fair city. A march on Washington, culminating in the presentation of a million-dollar campaign contribution to be spread amongst the opponents of several targetted Congresspersons, would be vastly more effective.
I have always wondered exactly what kind of super space material those damn "tow cables" were made of. Somehow strong enough so that three coils of that... um... black string could somehow stand up to the power of between four and sixteen massive hydraulic lifters. Uh... Yeah.
Theory: The black string was actually organic in nature, and infused with billions upon billions of mitichlorians. Hm... I should write for LucasArts.