I don't get your arguement at all. Sometimes you get the option to play as a giant lizard......ooh creepy. After all only real giant lizards should take that option.
Well I don't reckon it's beyond possibility certainly. If the X prize is won next week then the sponsorship boost from the publicity could be astronomical, especially if passengers start to be taken up.
As for when people start dying, I reckon all the people likely to go up in the near future will be adults who are well aware of the risks they are taking and are more than happy to take their chances for the experience of flying into space. People die mountaineering, people die skiing. Lets try to keep some perspective.
Just finished Reading 'Vernon God Little' by DBC Pierre last week and in that story there is a reality TV show on death row where the public get to vote every week on who gets executed next. While reading it I thought that it was a huge leap into fantasy but obviously it wasn't as huge as I thought. Great book by the way.
Oh come on, people all over the world endanger themselves in ridiculous undertakings all the time even without financial incentive. There is the annual 'running down a hill chasing a rolling cheese' race in England just for starters. At least the X prize has the advantages of both producing some interesting and potentially useful new technology and providing a fantastic spectacle for the rest of us. I am sure the pilots are all fully aware of the risks and would still tell you they are having the times of their lives.
But kilometres are smaller than miles so surely the distance seems shorter when displayed in miles. I think 55 miles is 88km.
That said, I agree that it would make more sense to give the result in km.
.
*sigh* ok I screwed that one up.
Just to argumentative though - when you are talking about a 10 minute track are you going to spend your money based on the thirty seconds the people trying to sell it to you have decided to show you?
I would have to disagree. Especially when it comes to more electronic music. Try listening to the first 30 seconds of any Orb track for example and try to work out whether it is a good one (and the Orb have produced plenty of both).
Well I have certainly noticed those little white headphones and thought they cried out that someone was looking for trouble. I have been mugged a couple of times in the past so maybe I have a heightened awareness of that sort of thing but certainly no more heightened than someone who wants to resell your ipod for 150 or so.
One of the things I like about my Creative Zen is how much it looks like and old tape Walkman. Maybe it looks a bit clunky but who's going to steal one of those these days.
It is obvious that traditional national laws cannot easily be applied to the internet as the boundries and responsibilities are at best hazy.
Is it possible that what we really require is a group of internationally agreed guidelines and an organisation independent of any nation to police them?
I know very little about law and suspect that this would be basically impossible to implement anyway but would be interested in hearing what anyone else thinks.
Actually I can distinctly remember at least one of Asimov's stories which focussed around exactly that. The law: 'A robot may not harm a human nor through inactivity allow a human to come to harm' was abbreviated to omit its second half. The reason was that humans were working in an area of low level radiation which if they stayed in too long would harm them and the robots working nearby kept dragging them out.
My candidate for a film adaption is 'The Saga of the Exiles' by Julian May. Great worldbuilding, nice complex political element and interesting characters. Trouble is it would be even longer than LOTR.
We've got a Sanyo which is rated at about 1000 lumens and the Simpsons (amongst other things) is totally watchable in a normally sized room lit with a 100W bulb. Of course turning the lights out improves things but I couldn't rate this as a serious problem.
Slashdot Mirror
Brilliant analysis of the situation. The 'selling time' perspective is one of my favourites and often clarifies economic situations nicely.
You definitely play.
Sad day indeed.
Actually I am going to be picky about a completely different point. Vonnegut wrote about ice nine however the book itself was called Cat's Cradle.
I can't work out if this is just a particularly nasty troll or if you have just completely missed the point.
I don't get your arguement at all. Sometimes you get the option to play as a giant lizard... ...ooh creepy. After all only real giant lizards should take that option.
Well I don't reckon it's beyond possibility certainly. If the X prize is won next week then the sponsorship boost from the publicity could be astronomical, especially if passengers start to be taken up.
As for when people start dying, I reckon all the people likely to go up in the near future will be adults who are well aware of the risks they are taking and are more than happy to take their chances for the experience of flying into space. People die mountaineering, people die skiing. Lets try to keep some perspective.
Just finished Reading 'Vernon God Little' by DBC Pierre last week and in that story there is a reality TV show on death row where the public get to vote every week on who gets executed next. While reading it I thought that it was a huge leap into fantasy but obviously it wasn't as huge as I thought. Great book by the way.
Absolutely. This whole Mars fiasco has damaged NASA badly.
Wonder if any of the X prize teams will be in a position to go up and fix the Hubble before NASA get around to it?
Oh come on, people all over the world endanger themselves in ridiculous undertakings all the time even without financial incentive. There is the annual 'running down a hill chasing a rolling cheese' race in England just for starters. At least the X prize has the advantages of both producing some interesting and potentially useful new technology and providing a fantastic spectacle for the rest of us. I am sure the pilots are all fully aware of the risks and would still tell you they are having the times of their lives.
Will I be able to power my mp3 player rom my sunglasses?
But kilometres are smaller than miles so surely the distance seems shorter when displayed in miles. I think 55 miles is 88km. That said, I agree that it would make more sense to give the result in km. .
test
Would it not be better if it did bond to tissue? That would prevent drifting.
...just to be argumentative (damn it)
*sigh* ok I screwed that one up. Just to argumentative though - when you are talking about a 10 minute track are you going to spend your money based on the thirty seconds the people trying to sell it to you have decided to show you?
I would have to disagree. Especially when it comes to more electronic music. Try listening to the first 30 seconds of any Orb track for example and try to work out whether it is a good one (and the Orb have produced plenty of both).
Just asking because I can't get this straight in my head. If a 1000% increase is 10x why is a 100% increase not 1x?
Wow, you know an arachnid called Creepy? Me too! Do you live near Marlow?
Well I have certainly noticed those little white headphones and thought they cried out that someone was looking for trouble. I have been mugged a couple of times in the past so maybe I have a heightened awareness of that sort of thing but certainly no more heightened than someone who wants to resell your ipod for 150 or so. One of the things I like about my Creative Zen is how much it looks like and old tape Walkman. Maybe it looks a bit clunky but who's going to steal one of those these days.
It is obvious that traditional national laws cannot easily be applied to the internet as the boundries and responsibilities are at best hazy. Is it possible that what we really require is a group of internationally agreed guidelines and an organisation independent of any nation to police them? I know very little about law and suspect that this would be basically impossible to implement anyway but would be interested in hearing what anyone else thinks.
Actually I can distinctly remember at least one of Asimov's stories which focussed around exactly that. The law: 'A robot may not harm a human nor through inactivity allow a human to come to harm' was abbreviated to omit its second half. The reason was that humans were working in an area of low level radiation which if they stayed in too long would harm them and the robots working nearby kept dragging them out.
My candidate for a film adaption is 'The Saga of the Exiles' by Julian May. Great worldbuilding, nice complex political element and interesting characters. Trouble is it would be even longer than LOTR.
In Soviet Europa, acid eats you.
We've got a Sanyo which is rated at about 1000 lumens and the Simpsons (amongst other things) is totally watchable in a normally sized room lit with a 100W bulb. Of course turning the lights out improves things but I couldn't rate this as a serious problem.