According the report, the world has grown so dependent on modern technologies without respect of what the sun can and has done, that it's risking major communications, finance, transportation, government and even emergency services disruptions
That's why I keep a loaded AK by my home servers and my passport is right beside my 45.
While it's an interesting and well founded point you bring up we also need to consider that the face of healthcare isn't likely to be the same in 100 years. We can not let this format be based on 2009 health care practices or even 2009 technology as a limitation.
And don't forget about the number of apps that will need to be rewriten if there is a single standard set in place. The data in these databases didn't get there on it's own. It was put in over many years by nurses, interns and others. Converting the data is not that big of an issue compared to making sure that the thousands of homebrew apps that are used in the fashions are brought up to spec.
Yeah, but consider that all T-40 series have the same power brick, all T-60 series have the same power brick. I know that it probably doesn't mean much to you if you're buying them one at a time but in the office place it's pretty convenient.
And your old useful equipment will be gladly excepted by places like GoodWill. It may only be a small contribution but it serves so many people in so many ways that it's insane not to do it.
I'd like to point out that Pink Floyd pre-dates Hendrix. I know it's a common misconception (we discussed it a bit down thread) but it's still important to note.
Just because others didn't know about Floyd pre-Gilmour is no reason to dismiss that era of their history. This was the foundation of the band and I'm sure it made one hell of a difference to them.
Yeah, I agree that it's odd. I'm sure if we go back there is a couple of articles with a ton of posts about Microsoft being dead. After all, any failure at MS is a sure sign of their demise. Or so I've heard for the past 6 or 7 years.
And while I do realize that Gates is pretty much out the door at MS my bigger point is that, IMHO, he has been little more than a business man figurehead for a long long time. Jobs is probably in the same possition. His days of innovation are probably long behind him.
I think it's pretty safe to say that neither Bill Hewlett or David Packard will be back to lift the HP back into glory.
All kidding aside, I don't know how much Jobs or Gates can be considered engineers or developers any longer. Does anyone really know how long it's been since either of these guys has done hands-on anything? My guess is that Gates hasn't coded in well over 15 years. I wonder if the boy could even do a group policy edit if he had to.
As a new EVE player (a little over a month now) it would be fantastic not having to be at my laptop every time a skill training expires. That's the whole thing about EVE; it's great that you can train for skills while off line but the time it takes makes it a regal pain in the ass any time you need to switch to a new skill but aren't at your machine. I actually take the time to plan my skill training around my real life schedule.
I understand that it's part of the appeal of the game and takes away from the grind a bit but still, I want to play when I went to play, not when my training tract says I should. I find myself putting time into lesser skills because they have large time cycles and I don't feel like I'm wasting my time.
But if he's going to do this he should go full tilt and have the tax based on the vehicles weight too as this is a big factor in road wear. This was a guy driving a rig is going to have to pay his just dues compared to the motorcyclist or those of us who drive a car that weighs less than the hood ornament of one of those fancy Ford/Chevy/Toyota monster mobiles that can haul three stone blocks from the Great Pyramid of Giza in the bed but often carry little more than some redneck, a case of Coors and a few Garth Brooks CDs.
Don't feel too bad. About 12 years ago one of my relatives was over my house and I was playing a laserdisc. She had never seen one and I was showing her how it worked. I was putting it back into the sleave and she asked me "How do you rewind it?"
Sure I would say The Time Machine is sci-fi on two fronts.
First is the most obvious matter of time travel. I guess this could be reduced to mere fantasy so I won't push the point.
But secondly, as you said, it's partly about the industrialization of society at the time and Wells' outlook on where it had a potential to lead. This is the same reason that Neuromancer (which someone brought up earlier) can be sci-fi; it's a story of what the future might be because of the technology. Star Wars doesn't address the technology itself, it hardly even uses it as a vehicle for anything at all.
Science fiction should involve science. Star Wars doesn't do that. It uses future technology as a backdrop, sure, but doesn't actually involve the technology in and of itself. That's science fiction when the technology is involved.
I have to agree with you here from the tech aspect. There was no real tech. A car hovered because they said it did. No explanation was given. It's on the same level as a fairy tale with fairy dust.
For that reason alone I disqualify Star Wars as sci-fi. There simply is no "sci" to it at all. Even terrible pseudo-science films like Dante's Peak and Deep Impact are miles ahead of Star Wars.
Hypothetical question. If some artsy filmmaker made a low budget Watchmen movie that was really low budget, Im talking about uses visual symbolism instead of special effects, less than half a million budget, etc etc, that was absolutely in keeping with the spirit and meaning of the source work would you go watch it? Would you watch it over a Hollywood version that was visually cool?
I can't speak for the entire Watchmen thing as I'm not into the whole comic book deal but I will tell you that I found the ultra-low budget Call of Cthulhu was just the thing to helping me get my Lovecraft groove back on after a long time away from the old gents works.
And it's not that I've ever seen Lovecraft as low budget but I guess most people do simply by his association with the word "pulp."
Now, would I rather see a high rent version of the same thing? Only if it was spent on actors who can act. Eye candy doesn't mean anything if I can't get into the story. Eye candy is only good if it goes unnoticed instead of being the focus of a film.
I'm afraid the days of editors actually seeking out news is long gone. Upper management made stuff like the firehose for a reason and it wasn't to make your life easier.
What? Let the proper authorities look into the situation? What kind of crazy talk is that?
Seriously? the conspiracy nut jobs will never except any evidence under any circumstances and will always claim to know better than the best minds in their related fields. It's pointless to even deal with people like that anymore. Planes wreck every day. This one could be an accident, it could be the work of some seedy people. Those of us who want to keep a cool head about it will never know the truth because there will be so many people pulling the truth in so many directions we will never notice it. It's sad that once people realize that what they believe is bullshit they can't just let it go and say they were wrong. Knee jerk reactions will always be the order of the day.
Now, I'm just waiting for some complete jerkoff come by and use this post as a vehicle for their politics or a chance to bash religion/gays/Linux users/Windows users. These asshats simply can not resist.
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We should have listened to Sean Connery...
"He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way!"
According the report, the world has grown so dependent on modern technologies without respect of what the sun can and has done, that it's risking major communications, finance, transportation, government and even emergency services disruptions
That's why I keep a loaded AK by my home servers and my passport is right beside my 45.
While it's an interesting and well founded point you bring up we also need to consider that the face of healthcare isn't likely to be the same in 100 years. We can not let this format be based on 2009 health care practices or even 2009 technology as a limitation.
And don't forget about the number of apps that will need to be rewriten if there is a single standard set in place. The data in these databases didn't get there on it's own. It was put in over many years by nurses, interns and others. Converting the data is not that big of an issue compared to making sure that the thousands of homebrew apps that are used in the fashions are brought up to spec.
Yeah, but consider that all T-40 series have the same power brick, all T-60 series have the same power brick. I know that it probably doesn't mean much to you if you're buying them one at a time but in the office place it's pretty convenient.
And your old useful equipment will be gladly excepted by places like GoodWill. It may only be a small contribution but it serves so many people in so many ways that it's insane not to do it.
blah blah blah Dunkin Donut shops, blah blah blah
Mmmmm... Donuts.
I dunno... you gotta wonder about a guy who can make a short wave radio out of coconut shells but can't fix a hole in a boat.
I'd like to point out that Pink Floyd pre-dates Hendrix. I know it's a common misconception (we discussed it a bit down thread) but it's still important to note.
Just because others didn't know about Floyd pre-Gilmour is no reason to dismiss that era of their history. This was the foundation of the band and I'm sure it made one hell of a difference to them.
30 billion spread across 1 million workers comes out to 30k a year for one year. This is to say nothing of the administrative costs.
Sounds like a pie-in-the-sky figure to me. Even with modest returns my guess is a lot of those 1 million jobs will be depreciated in less than a year.
Yeah, I agree that it's odd. I'm sure if we go back there is a couple of articles with a ton of posts about Microsoft being dead. After all, any failure at MS is a sure sign of their demise. Or so I've heard for the past 6 or 7 years.
And while I do realize that Gates is pretty much out the door at MS my bigger point is that, IMHO, he has been little more than a business man figurehead for a long long time. Jobs is probably in the same possition. His days of innovation are probably long behind him.
I think it's pretty safe to say that neither Bill Hewlett or David Packard will be back to lift the HP back into glory.
All kidding aside, I don't know how much Jobs or Gates can be considered engineers or developers any longer. Does anyone really know how long it's been since either of these guys has done hands-on anything? My guess is that Gates hasn't coded in well over 15 years. I wonder if the boy could even do a group policy edit if he had to.
Well, since I don't fit this contradiction in any way I guess you're more the fool for it.
Over here in the UK you're more likely to get laughed at if you drive one of them round the streets and have people shout "tosser" at you.
Don't think there aren't a growing number of us in the US who don't do the same, my British friend... except we don't exactly use the work tosser.
Hopefully this will be a trend as the price of gas is likely to take an upward swing in the next few months.
As a new EVE player (a little over a month now) it would be fantastic not having to be at my laptop every time a skill training expires. That's the whole thing about EVE; it's great that you can train for skills while off line but the time it takes makes it a regal pain in the ass any time you need to switch to a new skill but aren't at your machine. I actually take the time to plan my skill training around my real life schedule.
I understand that it's part of the appeal of the game and takes away from the grind a bit but still, I want to play when I went to play, not when my training tract says I should. I find myself putting time into lesser skills because they have large time cycles and I don't feel like I'm wasting my time.
But if he's going to do this he should go full tilt and have the tax based on the vehicles weight too as this is a big factor in road wear. This was a guy driving a rig is going to have to pay his just dues compared to the motorcyclist or those of us who drive a car that weighs less than the hood ornament of one of those fancy Ford/Chevy/Toyota monster mobiles that can haul three stone blocks from the Great Pyramid of Giza in the bed but often carry little more than some redneck, a case of Coors and a few Garth Brooks CDs.
Don't feel too bad. About 12 years ago one of my relatives was over my house and I was playing a laserdisc. She had never seen one and I was showing her how it worked. I was putting it back into the sleave and she asked me "How do you rewind it?"
For the love of Pete!
Sure I would say The Time Machine is sci-fi on two fronts.
First is the most obvious matter of time travel. I guess this could be reduced to mere fantasy so I won't push the point.
But secondly, as you said, it's partly about the industrialization of society at the time and Wells' outlook on where it had a potential to lead. This is the same reason that Neuromancer (which someone brought up earlier) can be sci-fi; it's a story of what the future might be because of the technology. Star Wars doesn't address the technology itself, it hardly even uses it as a vehicle for anything at all.
Science fiction should involve science. Star Wars doesn't do that. It uses future technology as a backdrop, sure, but doesn't actually involve the technology in and of itself. That's science fiction when the technology is involved.
I have to agree with you here from the tech aspect. There was no real tech. A car hovered because they said it did. No explanation was given. It's on the same level as a fairy tale with fairy dust.
For that reason alone I disqualify Star Wars as sci-fi. There simply is no "sci" to it at all. Even terrible pseudo-science films like Dante's Peak and Deep Impact are miles ahead of Star Wars.
Hypothetical question. If some artsy filmmaker made a low budget Watchmen movie that was really low budget, Im talking about uses visual symbolism instead of special effects, less than half a million budget, etc etc, that was absolutely in keeping with the spirit and meaning of the source work would you go watch it? Would you watch it over a Hollywood version that was visually cool?
I can't speak for the entire Watchmen thing as I'm not into the whole comic book deal but I will tell you that I found the ultra-low budget Call of Cthulhu was just the thing to helping me get my Lovecraft groove back on after a long time away from the old gents works.
And it's not that I've ever seen Lovecraft as low budget but I guess most people do simply by his association with the word "pulp."
Now, would I rather see a high rent version of the same thing? Only if it was spent on actors who can act. Eye candy doesn't mean anything if I can't get into the story. Eye candy is only good if it goes unnoticed instead of being the focus of a film.
It won't make you go any faster but it does cut down on their carbon footprint a tad.
I'm afraid the days of editors actually seeking out news is long gone. Upper management made stuff like the firehose for a reason and it wasn't to make your life easier.
What? Let the proper authorities look into the situation? What kind of crazy talk is that?
Seriously? the conspiracy nut jobs will never except any evidence under any circumstances and will always claim to know better than the best minds in their related fields. It's pointless to even deal with people like that anymore. Planes wreck every day. This one could be an accident, it could be the work of some seedy people. Those of us who want to keep a cool head about it will never know the truth because there will be so many people pulling the truth in so many directions we will never notice it. It's sad that once people realize that what they believe is bullshit they can't just let it go and say they were wrong. Knee jerk reactions will always be the order of the day.
Now, I'm just waiting for some complete jerkoff come by and use this post as a vehicle for their politics or a chance to bash religion/gays/Linux users/Windows users. These asshats simply can not resist.