The part where they travel through time? Or set their phasers on stun?
Or is it one of the drawn out, boring-as-hell social commentary ST scripts, where they sit around and discuss Klingon/Bejoran/Ferengi/Romulan politics?
That case clearly shows the flaws with this technology.
It made the surgeon lazy. He expected the robot to just 'do what it should' with no problems. He didn't check for internal bleeding. The patient died because of it.
Since the doctor is controlling it, and now the surgery is going to seem 'easier', yet 'take longer', I'd see it being much more likely to fall prey to drugs, fatigue, and distraction.
Maybe if the surgery in the parent post didnt take so long, they would have done the standard checks for internal bleeding.
Technology has a nasty side-effect of making people lazy. Eg; If you have keyless remote for your car, are you sure when you press it, and it beeps, that your doors are locked? You'd be surprised how often they arent. Do you check? Of course not.
An unlocked car-door is one thing, a patient bleeding to death is another. Frankly, many surgeons have a very cavalier attitude towards their patients mortality.
I dont even get your joke, if thats what it was. Does it have a point? Is it relevant? On topic? Or is it just a cheap karma whore by saying something negative about microsoft?
..they invariably piss it away on stupid shit like building a rocketship to the moon, funding the segway, buying some baseball players homerun ball for millions, donating to stop the spread of aids in india, and other such lost causes?
>> So you're happy with your tax dollars being wasted on Micro$oft's overpriced crap?
Depends what you consider "wasted". I don't necessarily expect either of my children to become computer scientists. If they do, great, and if not, fine.
Practically every home has a PC in it. If a kid takes to it, wants to learn about Linux, he can, and will, do so himself.
I'd rather have the public schools focus on the basic skills the children will need, and those skills are MS Word, Excel, Access, etc. Thats the reality.
I'd rather see 30G go into software that will teach kids marketable skills they'll use, than be blown on feel-good schemes by some idealogue.
You don't care until the you get the wrong shopping cart, and it shrieks, at the top of it's digital lungs "HEY, BACKISSUES OF PLAYGIRL ARE ON SALE 2 FOR A DOLLAR WITH PURCHASE OF LARGE DRUM OF VASELINE"
See what it's like to live in a country, where because of an accident of birth, you literally aren't *allowed* to do anything but scrub public urinals for the rest of your life, get any sort of education, or look the higher castes in the eyes. See if your lofty anti-american criticisms remain when you have to remove your shoes and bow your head just to walk past one of your 'betters', and you're denied medical treatment because the social order views you as beneath contempt.
Gandhi didn't change shit. That still goes on day to day, I've seen it firsthand. That country disgusted me at just how insensitive humans can be to their own kind. Cows are worshipped, people left in the street to die.
AND, India has one of the most corrupt governments around. Kickbacks? Bribes? Abuse of authority? Conflicts of interest? Our local politicians could learn a *LOT* from the Indians.
I really find it hard to believe there was anything altruistic about using linux, and more of an answer to MSFT's announcing it would be cracking down harder on piracy in the region, and if Gates paid the customary round bribes, you'd see Windows XP on every one of those PCs.
I read the story as Gates' having the convictions to refuse to do business that way.
>> Lucas went on to say that the proliferation of free and illegal downloading of content on the Internet could eventually lead studios to shy away from spending as much as they do on blockbuster movies since it won't be nearly as profitable for them to do so.
Yeah!! Look what the internet did to the porn industry!
Seriously.. You'd think Hollywood could learn a thing or two from the XXX industry. Look how mainstream it became via the internet. Hard to understand why they don't see it as the powerful distrobution vehicle it could be.
I mean if you distributed 100% more copies of , why fight so hard because 5% of them are pirated? Mo money, mo money mo money. You don't see vivid video fighting to shut down distribution of their films.
Noone uses the iso images they leech off their friendly neighbourhood Gene6 ftp server to 'evaluate' before making a purchase.
Modchips are so you don't have to pay for the games. Everyone knows that. Be a man and admit it.
All this hiding behind completely phony virtuous excuses is pathetic, and makes pirates look like a bunch of sniveling whiners.
I don't give a shit about backups, linux, or crappy mp3 players. I am, however, sick of the price gouging in the industry. A game being 60$ one week, 30 the next, then 20, then eventually 10. It's crap. I refuse to pay an unreasonable price for a game. So I pirate them, with not the least tinge of guilt.
I have hundreds of legitimately purchased titles, to boot - so anyone who wants to lay the 'you're killing the industry' bullshit on me can eat it.
>> Up until someone comes up with a way to report a different "unique" ID, and a way to make it not detect the mod chips
Just like the keygens for Half Life and Quake 3, right?
Oh wait. Unique keys. With a central database containing all valid keys, and associating them with a MAC address.
More likely, you might see rogue servers set up, which would fit the bill for things like Unreal Championship.
Personally, I'm not excited about the idea of paying a subscription to play a game that'd benefit perfectly fine from a decentralized, P2P method of online play, like UC or some sports titles. There's no need for an online community. I hate online communities, they're full of idiots. Just look at this one.
Hopefully MSFT and Sony realize this, and start releasing some games that allow me to just connect to my kid brother and beat the crap out of him from 500 miles away, without having to 'log in' and pay a bill.
Until then, I'll just keep filling my shelves with nice free pirated single player games, and not bat an eye at the xbox lives policies.
As for this 'news' that never was - it's been known for a long, long, long, long time within the mod world that xbox live would not allow chipped consoles.
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>> After all they are looking for more partners to screw.
And when you get screwed by microsoft, you're also screwing every partner that's ever been screwed, and the ones who screwed them.
Every democrat is the democrats Dubya. That should be their campaign slogan - "We're all as dumb as Dubya!"
Bunch of shrill, whiney overreactive knee-jerk morons.
Look at Daschle's latest tirade on how Rush Limbaugh is inciting violence against him.
Microsoft sucks. Can I have my karma now?
What plot developments?
The part where they travel through time? Or set their phasers on stun?
Or is it one of the drawn out, boring-as-hell social commentary ST scripts, where they sit around and discuss Klingon/Bejoran/Ferengi/Romulan politics?
Damn, that got modded down as flamebait?
That case clearly shows the flaws with this technology.
It made the surgeon lazy. He expected the robot to just 'do what it should' with no problems. He didn't check for internal bleeding. The patient died because of it.
Wow! I didn't know pro wrestlers had it so tough.
Oh wait, the other uniforms. NM
Since the doctor is controlling it, and now the surgery is going to seem 'easier', yet 'take longer', I'd see it being much more likely to fall prey to drugs, fatigue, and distraction.
Maybe if the surgery in the parent post didnt take so long, they would have done the standard checks for internal bleeding.
Technology has a nasty side-effect of making people lazy. Eg; If you have keyless remote for your car, are you sure when you press it, and it beeps, that your doors are locked? You'd be surprised how often they arent. Do you check? Of course not.
An unlocked car-door is one thing, a patient bleeding to death is another. Frankly, many surgeons have a very cavalier attitude towards their patients mortality.
>> He skips reading the article, which answered his stupid question in the 3rd paragraph, and asks it here, and it's "Insightful"?
What makes you think the moderators read the articles either?
But, it's the same 'robot'.
If it cant handle your kidney, you want it fucking around with your heart?
Of course the doctor's there. It's just another tool they use.
It'd be like suing a scalpel.
I dont even get your joke, if thats what it was. Does it have a point? Is it relevant? On topic? Or is it just a cheap karma whore by saying something negative about microsoft?
Microsoft is dumb! mod me up up up!
Exactly.
It should be wasted on cocaine and prostitutes like any good red blooded american would.
..they invariably piss it away on stupid shit like building a rocketship to the moon, funding the segway, buying some baseball players homerun ball for millions, donating to stop the spread of aids in india, and other such lost causes?
>> So you're happy with your tax dollars being wasted on Micro$oft's overpriced crap?
Depends what you consider "wasted". I don't necessarily expect either of my children to become computer scientists. If they do, great, and if not, fine.
Practically every home has a PC in it. If a kid takes to it, wants to learn about Linux, he can, and will, do so himself.
I'd rather have the public schools focus on the basic skills the children will need, and those skills are MS Word, Excel, Access, etc. Thats the reality.
I'd rather see 30G go into software that will teach kids marketable skills they'll use, than be blown on feel-good schemes by some idealogue.
>> You're probably a renter
And you probably don't have children.
>> Yeah, but what part of the law are they invoking in order to do this?
The part that says "I have more money than you, you can't afford to fight this"
It sure would make a great dumpsite.
You don't care until the you get the wrong shopping cart, and it shrieks, at the top of it's digital lungs "HEY, BACKISSUES OF PLAYGIRL ARE ON SALE 2 FOR A DOLLAR WITH PURCHASE OF LARGE DRUM OF VASELINE"
in your shopping cart
in your phone
in your soda
on your t-shirt
on your fridge
on your dishwasher
in your toaster
Enough. Yeah, I can imagine it.. Whoopty do.
Imagine a computer with an LCD screen on your desktop computer.
Even if this was a new application, I really don't need to be informed everytime someone gets the idea to stick a computer into something.
No, they stuck their hands out and ordereed "PAY US TO USE WINDOWS", Gates said no.
/.'ers who want to compare it favorably to america, need to go live there for a few years.
Indian government runs on bribes and extortion. Any of you
OH please.
Move to India. Leave this country.
Become one of the "untouchables".
See what it's like to live in a country, where because of an accident of birth, you literally aren't *allowed* to do anything but scrub public urinals for the rest of your life, get any sort of education, or look the higher castes in the eyes. See if your lofty anti-american criticisms remain when you have to remove your shoes and bow your head just to walk past one of your 'betters', and you're denied medical treatment because the social order views you as beneath contempt.
Gandhi didn't change shit. That still goes on day to day, I've seen it firsthand. That country disgusted me at just how insensitive humans can be to their own kind. Cows are worshipped, people left in the street to die.
AND, India has one of the most corrupt governments around. Kickbacks? Bribes? Abuse of authority? Conflicts of interest? Our local politicians could learn a *LOT* from the Indians.
I really find it hard to believe there was anything altruistic about using linux, and more of an answer to MSFT's announcing it would be cracking down harder on piracy in the region, and if Gates paid the customary round bribes, you'd see Windows XP on every one of those PCs.
I read the story as Gates' having the convictions to refuse to do business that way.
>> Lucas went on to say that the proliferation of free and illegal downloading of content on the Internet could eventually lead studios to shy away from spending as much as they do on blockbuster movies since it won't be nearly as profitable for them to do so.
Yeah!! Look what the internet did to the porn industry!
Seriously.. You'd think Hollywood could learn a thing or two from the XXX industry. Look how mainstream it became via the internet. Hard to understand why they don't see it as the powerful distrobution vehicle it could be.
I mean if you distributed 100% more copies of , why fight so hard because 5% of them are pirated? Mo money, mo money mo money. You don't see vivid video fighting to shut down distribution of their films.
That'll show 'em, boy howdy.
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Damn you Microsoft! Oh wait, I read that here.
>> You can buy a barebones pc at twice the speed which is nice if your using the xbox as a server.
You think people buy xboxes to use them as servers, huh?
Gawd, yer a douchebag.
Sony will block cheaters too. There's really no difference, except one company is Japanese, and one American.
I'm so sick of the morons who think microsoft is run by Satan and Sony is run by fucking care bears. Sheesh.
I'm sure William and the pimply faced part-timer next to him in tech support spent a good half hour laughing at you. How does that feel?
Noone seriously runs linux on an xbox.
Noone legitimately backs up their software.
Noone uses the iso images they leech off their friendly neighbourhood Gene6 ftp server to 'evaluate' before making a purchase.
Modchips are so you don't have to pay for the games. Everyone knows that. Be a man and admit it.
All this hiding behind completely phony virtuous excuses is pathetic, and makes pirates look like a bunch of sniveling whiners.
I don't give a shit about backups, linux, or crappy mp3 players. I am, however, sick of the price gouging in the industry. A game being 60$ one week, 30 the next, then 20, then eventually 10. It's crap. I refuse to pay an unreasonable price for a game. So I pirate them, with not the least tinge of guilt.
I have hundreds of legitimately purchased titles, to boot - so anyone who wants to lay the 'you're killing the industry' bullshit on me can eat it.
>> Up until someone comes up with a way to report a different "unique" ID, and a way to make it not detect the mod chips
Just like the keygens for Half Life and Quake 3, right?
Oh wait. Unique keys. With a central database containing all valid keys, and associating them with a MAC address.
More likely, you might see rogue servers set up, which would fit the bill for things like Unreal Championship.
Personally, I'm not excited about the idea of paying a subscription to play a game that'd benefit perfectly fine from a decentralized, P2P method of online play, like UC or some sports titles. There's no need for an online community. I hate online communities, they're full of idiots. Just look at this one.
Hopefully MSFT and Sony realize this, and start releasing some games that allow me to just connect to my kid brother and beat the crap out of him from 500 miles away, without having to 'log in' and pay a bill.
Until then, I'll just keep filling my shelves with nice free pirated single player games, and not bat an eye at the xbox lives policies.
As for this 'news' that never was - it's been known for a long, long, long, long time within the mod world that xbox live would not allow chipped consoles.