So... I don't get it. Am I supposed to feel like a fool because you are a moron?
No. You may feel free to feel like a fool on your own merits. Lighten up, dude.
Please look up "moron". I seriously doubt I fall under any of the definitions, moreover it is considered offensive to call someone that. I take no offense, but your really ought to consider that for the future because other might not take it so well.
Well, we are about 5 levels deep in slashdot reply-dom, so I doubt many people will see this.
My Wife once made me watch a a movie where some guy thought Windex was good to cure all kinds of ills [I was gonna put a link here to some gross skin condition, but didn't want to slashdot anyone]!
I didn't RTFA, but I'll just guess that it lays the groundwork for building a computer, sometime in the next century that will be able to completely emulate [read: upload] a human personality/consciousness into an environment where they think they are still alive.
Of course, during upload their body would have been destroyed. Anyhoo, it sure will suck to have been the last person to think they had to die.
And that, is the point of this article. Fodder for postings such as this. Etc.
[And yes, I did have to use a spell-checker to get "consciousness" right, what are else computers for, if not for spelling?]
... is simply boiler-plate that applies to almost anything. a) Nobody will fact-check the statement so it might prevent a few "dupe" complaints. b) it increases interest in the posting because, "Wow, this has been mentioned more than once, I'd better read it!"
It put a lot of un-talented folks out of work too! There were a lot of band-wagon IT people in the dot-com parade. I sure hope they stay out of IT so they never get a chance to program my pacemaker or anything else more important than some retarded half-baked if-we-do-X-on-the-internet-we'll-get rich scheme.
I sold that piece of paper last January for just over $50! Even after a couple of bucks in eBay fees and postage I fail to see how I have lost anything.
While I had some interest in playing HL2, a) I know that when a game publisher says "maybe" [some date months away] that means "longer than I care to wait". b) The whole idea of "steam" kind of, well, steamed me. More intrusive software I have no use for.
Now the large portion of homeless here in California are the mentally ill.
It wasn't a right wing consiracy to be mean to the mentally ill, but rather, another mis-guided liberal program to "free" them.
Look up "deinstitutionalization", "main streaming", and "community integration". All happy-happy emotional terms for "dumping the crazies on the streets."
Everyone knows that right-wing nuts would be more than happy to keep undesireables locked up.
Liberals will pave the road to hell with good intentions, and Conservative contractors will be right there, looking for the constuction contract.
As a science-fiction writer, my job is predicting the future.
I thought the job of a science fiction writer was to author stories that are of a certain genre, generally, but not exclusivly dealing with speculations about the future.
That is very much different than predicting the future.
Science Fiction can be good even if the predictions are "wrong".
Is it the "Coke Classic" ploy?
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1) Sell the [slightly?] altererd DVD versions to those who just have to have them.
2) Profit!
1b) Then wait a bit and [re]-sell the "original" version to purists who have to have that.
2b) Profit!
Wow, you don't even need the usual 3 steps.
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You say I can't imagine playing this with plastic...
It also means you can deny stuff. "Hey Mr. Lawman, sure that encrypted stuff looks incrimidating, but really is is just innocent spam that I encrypted and signed as a test. The fact that you decrypted it to kiddie porn is just a coincidence. Prolly no better odds than O.J.'s blood match - they let him off..."
I am a reasonably intelligent person earning a decent living, so I get to pay infinately more in CA state taxes than the illegal aliens who are living a couple miles away and sucking up school, hospital, and other resources paid for by citizens.
If I tell you the details of a book or the end of a movie, it would be a spoiler...
If I tell you Phelps doesn't get gold in his second swim match, is that a spoiler?
Where is the line? Obviously fiction (books/movies) have "spoilers", but can current events/news have spoilers just because they are in a different time zone?
... but depending on how many beers I've had when I am signing the checks for the monthly bills, they are similar.
I cannot write in cursive to save my soul (well, maybe, if I had too, for THAT), since I have by typing since 4th grade.
I suspect lots of folks have handwriting sufficiently random to make this worthless.
I even told my own kids; "Hey, 4th grade is the last time anyone will care what your handwriting looks like -- work on what you are tyring to say, and be clear, most people aren't as smart as you are."
Why would you do something randomly if there is some other discriminator? Any other discriminator. Tooting one's own horn is a time honored way of getting ahead.
... since everyone has forgotten it, I would hope.
I am sure I have seen bad movies that I have completely forgotten. Doesn't that make one of them the worst?
If a movie is so bad that you remember seeing it doesn't that change things? By impressing you with some entertainment value, however backwards and unintended, it gave the inspiration to you to try and impress others with your brilliant description of how awful it was, right?
Personally, my answer to What would you consider the worst movie ever made? would have to be answered with a question, that can probably be answered by someone who cares more than I;
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So... I don't get it. Am I supposed to feel like a fool because you are a moron?
No. You may feel free to feel like a fool on your own merits. Lighten up, dude.
Please look up "moron". I seriously doubt I fall under any of the definitions, moreover it is considered offensive to call someone that. I take no offense, but your really ought to consider that for the future because other might not take it so well.
Well, we are about 5 levels deep in slashdot reply-dom, so I doubt many people will see this.
Hope your day starts going better.
That is funny as hell.
My original post was merely a bet with myself that I could post almost any random semi-coherent thing and get at least 5 replies.
I Won!
My Wife once made me watch a a movie where some guy thought Windex was good to cure all kinds of ills [I was gonna put a link here to some gross skin condition, but didn't want to slashdot anyone]!
Of course, during upload their body would have been destroyed. Anyhoo, it sure will suck to have been the last person to think they had to die.
And that, is the point of this article. Fodder for postings such as this. Etc.
[And yes, I did have to use a spell-checker to get "consciousness" right, what are else computers for, if not for spelling?]
Calamari at a nice Italian restaurant - about $16.99 or more.
The look on your 10 year old's face when you have an octopus on your fork and then eat it; priceless...
"We mentioned this a few weeks ago."
It put a lot of un-talented folks out of work too! There were a lot of band-wagon IT people in the dot-com parade. I sure hope they stay out of IT so they never get a chance to program my pacemaker or anything else more important than some retarded half-baked if-we-do-X-on-the-internet-we'll-get rich scheme.
While I had some interest in playing HL2, a) I know that when a game publisher says "maybe" [some date months away] that means "longer than I care to wait". b) The whole idea of "steam" kind of, well, steamed me. More intrusive software I have no use for.
It stars Han Solo, and he is soooo dreamy!
It wasn't a right wing consiracy to be mean to the mentally ill, but rather, another mis-guided liberal program to "free" them.
Look up "deinstitutionalization", "main streaming", and "community integration". All happy-happy emotional terms for "dumping the crazies on the streets."
Everyone knows that right-wing nuts would be more than happy to keep undesireables locked up.
Liberals will pave the road to hell with good intentions, and Conservative contractors will be right there, looking for the constuction contract.
Maybe Firefox knows something I don't?
I thought the job of a science fiction writer was to author stories that are of a certain genre, generally, but not exclusivly dealing with speculations about the future.
That is very much different than predicting the future.
Science Fiction can be good even if the predictions are "wrong".
2) Profit!
1b) Then wait a bit and [re]-sell the "original" version to purists who have to have that.
2b) Profit!
Wow, you don't even need the usual 3 steps.
That is soooo 90's
As soon as they get a Beowulf cluster of, say TI-87 Calculators working on the problem, then the search will go much quicker.
Of course, I didn't RTFA, but what did they use. Obviously it wasn't 111 years of a single CPU.
It also means you can deny stuff. "Hey Mr. Lawman, sure that encrypted stuff looks incrimidating, but really is is just innocent spam that I encrypted and signed as a test. The fact that you decrypted it to kiddie porn is just a coincidence. Prolly no better odds than O.J.'s blood match - they let him off..."
Just toss out the space anchor.
I am a reasonably intelligent person earning a decent living, so I get to pay infinately more in CA state taxes than the illegal aliens who are living a couple miles away and sucking up school, hospital, and other resources paid for by citizens.
If I tell you Phelps doesn't get gold in his second swim match, is that a spoiler?
Where is the line? Obviously fiction (books/movies) have "spoilers", but can current events/news have spoilers just because they are in a different time zone?
I cannot write in cursive to save my soul (well, maybe, if I had too, for THAT), since I have by typing since 4th grade.
I suspect lots of folks have handwriting sufficiently random to make this worthless.
I even told my own kids; "Hey, 4th grade is the last time anyone will care what your handwriting looks like -- work on what you are tyring to say, and be clear, most people aren't as smart as you are."
I can't remember any stories where the characters use the toilet, but I assume they still crap in the future.
Maybe we can assume cell-phones are like crappers; everywhere and not worth mentioning.
Why is this a story? The factory will start making something with a higher margin as soon as they get asked.
Why would you do something randomly if there is some other discriminator? Any other discriminator. Tooting one's own horn is a time honored way of getting ahead.
If a movie is so bad that you remember seeing it doesn't that change things? By impressing you with some entertainment value, however backwards and unintended, it gave the inspiration to you to try and impress others with your brilliant description of how awful it was, right?
Personally, my answer to What would you consider the worst movie ever made? would have to be answered with a question, that can probably be answered by someone who cares more than I;
What movie lost the most money for its investors?