Calm down people <> Do you know where your towel is? Got some peanuts and a couple of beers ready?
Right, listen... We geeks are safe from harm...because we are already familiar with the disaster-scenario's that this could bring about. We are PREPARED! Yes indeedy. SF writers have been pondering this stuff for years...
All we need to do is check for a solution in one of these books <<peers at ginormous bookcase stuffed with SF novels>>...the question is...which one of these novels holds the CORRECT solution?
Hmm, alternatively we can load up some cheesy FP computergame and thats bound to tell us how to beat the spawn of evil! I'm sure the Spawn of Eternal Evil will wait half an hour while I finish a game of Doom looking for the solution;)
Hey, you all know how to fire a shoulder-mounted rocket-launcher, right?:o
If all else fails...we can ask the white mice to order a new planet for us:^)
Well...besides the obvious comments about the OS crashing...and the robot possibly rolling into/over someone:P (Obviously it would come to an immediate halt, but then again...it IS powered by an eeevil micro$oft product...so instead...it could go on a rampage, destroy buildings, search out it's maker, become part of the global computer defense network, go mad, develop an obsession with pinnochio, build an army of invincible shiny cyborgs, travel back in time, enslave humans and use them as power-sources...eh...nevermind:P
Eh...anyway...I was going to say that that wobot in the pictures looks a bit unstable to me...kinda top heavy and suffering from middle-age bloat (spare me the windoze jokes!;^)
Nevermind crashing the OS, what if that (expensive?) machine keels over?
Hmmmm...to properly test this...we need to place one small child and/or one happy dog in the vicinity of this robot. Stand back and make sure you're wearing a helmet (and probably steel-capped boots - mind your toeses folks:)
Which reminds me: A couple of years ago I watched some video footage on "America's funniest home-videos" (or some clone of that god awful program) where a remote controlled (friendly looking) robot entered a room where a whole bunch of kids where playing with toys. Obviously there was a hidden camera filming the whole thing. The producers thought it would be funny to have the kids talk to/interact with their crappy robot. The robot was about the same size and shape as the one in the article, but instead of blue, it was completely red with a 'traditional' square robot head. (square eyes, mouth, antennas, the works:)
Now here's the important bit: Much to the producers surprise (and delight) the children, upon seeing the robot enter the room, all started screaming and crying, and proceeded to assault the robot and pelt it with their toys!
Now imagine your kids at home, playing with their toys...and in comes Wobby the wobot - with DADDY's HEAD! "Hel-lo chil-dren!" Aaaugh!
Might've been the cameraman playing with his camera whole he was sitting in the cinema
(Aha! Real purpose of footage revealed! He was trying to get a closeup of thingamajich's breasts!) Say, there wasn't any shuddering while he was filming this, was there?
BTW, just a question....could you spot the difference between a movie shot in (for example) the UK and Nieuw Zeealand?
(I know I can, but then I drive through/over it everyday - looks a lot like the UK if you ask me;^)
"In other news, the sky is blue, the sun is hot, and sex is enjoyable."
Hey! Whoa! Stop that man! What are you thinking? What are you doing! This is/. man! Geez!;^P
"WTF! The sky is blue??!?! Naaaaah. You're joking right... Eh? Sun? Is that this this...daystar you've been talking about? What? Sex? Wuh-min? Uh, dude I think you've spent too much time away from your monitor man. Here, have a foo-bar and some caffeine-loaded beverage."
(Hint for moderators: No, 's not a troll, I am 'extracting the urine':^)
Like dude...you can assume "there's guaranteed to be more life *somewhere* in the galaxy" all you want, nobody is gonna believe you until we actually find some (proof of) life on/in a place other than earth.
Let's start by looking in the obvious places first. It doesn't matter so much WHAT we find, as long as we find something. Then we can see whether [we|life on earth] is a fluke or not. (And we can see whether or not there are/have been paralllellls in the development of either - or whether one is the origin of the other...etc etc:)
And obviously, by looking in obvious (and familiar) places, we increase the probability that we will actually recognize the life-forms that we find!
e.g. Silicon life-forms? Sure...eh..ok...how do you know it's alive? What might be a hundred years to carbon-based life-forms might be 1 second of comparative time to a silicon based-lifeform (or even the inverse of that:) How does either one see/know that the other is alive? How does a silicon-based lifeform perceive the world? Does it actually have senses? Do those senses overlap our own?
Let's start by finding alien bacteria and stuff like that....much easier:)
Oh, just a thought:
** If NASA *DO* find signs of life on another planet then I think the same thing will happen as what happened with the so-called 'martian' bacteria that supposedly arrived on earth by hopping on a comet/asteroid/rock -> We will end up with endless arguments over cross-contamination and whether or not we put those bugs there in the first place. Space might be freakin' cold and a very convenient vacuum, but it doesn't stop pollen and bacteria and god knows what else from happily travelling along with our space-probes:o (And I need someone to confirm this: Was there stuff growing on the outside of ol' MIR? or is that a myth?)
I was going to add another bit on how religious groups might get upset when the scientific community announces they've found life on other planets....but that's just asking for a troll-rating (:o (Hmm...some cults/sects would be ecstatic I'd imagine;)
Oops, here's a link
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If you really want to find out how it works:
Links to PS and PDF files are on this page
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~nzdl/publications/
(They are not going to like what I am about to do to their server;)
Ehm...maybe...there was/is a research-project at (*shame-less plug*:) Waikato University's school of CS which might be able to help you out.
The idea is that you hum or whistle a tune into the microphone and the computer will then use some fancy pattern-matching (I think) and spit out a song(s) that match. (From memory, too tired to look it up)
I have not seen this system in action, so I couldn't tell you how good it is. I don't think it works with MP3's though:o I think one of my fellow students is working on a related project...or I could just ask the people involved....if I could *find* them:o
website: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz
This is the one I think: --- McNab, R.J., Smith, L.A., Witten, I.H. and Henderson, C.L. (2000) Tune retrieval in the multimedia library Multimedia Tools and Applications, 10, 113--132. Kluwer Academic Publishers ---
<concerned voice> As a concerned parent(-to-be-someday;) I must warn the slashdot editors that they should take more care when posting such recklessly dangerous articles on their website! Tsk tsk tsk!
Geez, imagine if some naive slashdotter were to try that at home...no doubt he'll get carried away...start using larger bottles...larger barbie car...moving on to a decent size drum...then mounting the whole thing on an old car frame...then the ramp is deployed...the pressure rises...neighbours houses are perforated...and <*bang*> suddenly Slashdot will be the first website ever to be responsible for launching soggy geeks into orbit!!:P
2) A better design? Ok, what design do you suggest? From what I've seen from those 'space-research' companies that have been mentioned on slashdot over the past few weeks...well...frankly I don't think we should get too excited:o
My (not so original) suggestion:
((Most of this has been discussed here on slashdot before - I'll just rince and repeat and state the obvious:-))
Let's build a space-elevator. Right now we (eh..NASA) are spending VAST amounts of money to get relatively small amounts of material into space. The risks involved in getting this material into space are astronomical.
So build a space-elevator. The initial costs are most certainly incredibly high (no pun intended: astronomical - billions of dollars:^)...but once it is in place everything thereafter is a breeze at relatively 'launch' low cost and minimal/reduced risk.
I think most people will agree with me that ONLY once we have one of these in place that we can seriously begin to explore our solar-system. (Because we can then build our space-ships as big as want and launching them towards other planets will be a breeze:)
There are some hurdles...we lack some of the technology required to pull this off...(again...a question of applying plenty of moola)...and finding a location for this thing is another kettle of fish altogether. (E.g. Right on top of Mount Kilamanjaro? I doubt the locals wil let ya)
Rockets are not the way to go. They are a stop-gap..eh..thingy...measure.
Plan B: Invent an anti-gravity drive, stick it in your favourite rocket and forget everything I mentioned above;P
I have been using linux for ehh...about 4 or 5 years now and I have *NEVER* said 'GNU/Linux' or ever even heard anyone say 'GNU/Linux'. That includes people who have been using it longer and more than I do - come to think of it...that includes people who do scary things to the linux kernel on a daily basis:)
The only thing we argue about is how to pronounce linux;^)
I think you should cut down on your daily intake of cyberpunk novels...geez, talk about doom and gloom:o I suspect an acute overdose of Gibson triggered that outburst...
<obligatory silly scifi reference> Oh...and go get changed man...those spiffy spandex pants are just not on man;)
(I'll leave it to other people to comment on your...ehm...interesting line of reasoning:^)
Hmmm...the biggest problem with the animation is the fact that the faces are not animated...
<<sigh>> Static pictures/people that talk without moving their mouth or eyes does not make good animation...
If I want to watch static pictures that talk I'll watch those cheap japanese cartoons they show on tv these days...the ones that try to get kids to collect expensive trading cards. (and turn their brains into cream-cheese;)
This is a *SPLENDID* way to keep internet exploder (l)users away from webpages.
You don't want the average person to visit your website? smiple, insert 1 wee little line of code, et voila, bob's your uncle.
Come to think of it...if/. were to use this code/bug/feature, would that keep the trolls away? (Hah! syeah right! Wishfull thinking;^)
<wonderful dream> It'll take 6 months before micro$oft fixes the problem, so that'll give the rest of us six months of troll-free slashdot happiness:P
<reality> Having said that, I'm using Exploder on WinMe to submit this post - but mind you, it's the first time in 2 months I've been anywhere near windows - and yes, thats a real bug, it did crash - exploder only though...I figured windows would keel over with it. How eh...dissappointing;)
Ironic thoughts for the day: 1) this IE bug WILL become a feature.
<insert appropriate marketspeak here> 2) This post will get rated 'Troll':P
1) "SOFTWARE WARS"?? - must you Americans turn everything into a war? (yeah yeah, cheap shot;^)
2) "software procurement practices by state and local governments"
eh...this is the part where Billy's evil empire feeds them (i.e. the aforementioned governments) bullsh^H^H^Hmarketing speak and sells them crap software for big bucks right?
3) Where's the other testimonies? This is interesting and all...but it tells me nuthing I haven't heard before. Much as I hate to say it...let's hear it from the other side (that doesn't just mean micro$oft.)
Miiillions and miiilions of tiny little leeches are crawling your way, up yo...eh.... thundering your way in a flaming burning disintegrating spaceship! Yoinks!
(Hrm...maybe I shouldn't make fun of space-ship crashes...I do intend to go into space sooner or later (:o
Tsk tsk - < /. editors>> I read that as: "Escaped mutant worms have been found alive in space-shuttle wreckage!"
Bah, they were still in their containment ehh..container. How disappointing. I figured the little buggers had escaped and survived in the foam insulation of the space-shuttle. Maybe I should cut down on my daily intake of science fiction;)
Oh well, I'm surprised they didn't find any mutant fruit-flies (also from previous experiments;) or a gigantic mutant space mould. (Wasn't one of them growing on good ol' MIR?)
at the lack of references to pr0n in the posts I've seen so far...
Frankly I am quite dissappointed! The trolls must be having a day off...(syeah right!)
I can see the advertising now: "Amazing fantastic new 3D ball monitor with 3D-o-vision? Now you can have jerks all around!"
<<runs away and hides>>
Well..being an extra is not that fantastic guys...
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I was an extra in a locally made movie (in NZ, not in Ozzie;) and...eh...being an extra seemed to mostly consist of....WAITING. waiting waiting waiting....
It goes like this:
- Meeting the director - cool - Meeting the lead character (and assorted females) - neato - Having to sign a non-disclosure agreement - worrying - Wearing a nifty custome - very cool - Having make up applied by people from LOTR - very cool - Waiting for 5->6 hours in the middle of the freezing cold night (in some poky shed) - not so ehhh....cool. - Finally filming some scenes (outside) - which takes half an hour (if that) and by God it's gotten colder outside - most excellent.
(Although it was so cold that my big red nose was probably clearly shining through the layers of zombie make-up;^) oops...wasn't supposed to tell you that..
Would you willing to go through all that to be an extra in a star wars movie? YES? (this is/. after all;)
Ok, then follow the above procedure, but imagine yourself wearing (for example) a wookie-outfit or a storm-trooper outfit...and consider what the average day-time temperatures in Ozzie are like...
Welcome to troll-nirvana! (Please wear troll-proof fire-retardant clothing at all times;)
Anyhow...
It occurs to me that your little synopsis has a distinct whiff of racism about it.
Like this (probably too simplified but...):
- GM people will be banned and/or excluded. - This exclusion is based on genetic differences. - Another form of exclusion, also based on
genetic differences, is racism. - Racism is illegal (in most parts of the world) ---- Hence my (smiple:) conclusion: You cannot exclude GM people from sports/jobs/whatever.
(BTW, NO, I did not read the article...I'm killing time waiting for that T3 trailer to download;^)
I distinctly remember three things about this awful game:
1) It didn't matter which track you drove, they were all exactly alike. Lengths varied, but if you've seen the screenshots on the website...well...that's it. That's all you will see throughout the entire game. A highway at night. No change of scenery whatsoever.
2) You steal the cars you drive. This is shown by means of a black screen...with some strange clickety-click sounds coming from the speakers...right.
3) Whilst racing your monstrous beastly eh...not quite ferrari, not quite lamborghini car down the highway, with the engine roaring...you could hear birds singing in the trees and you could hear crickets in the grass along the highway... (Well...I think that's were they were hiding.. - maybe they were driving the other cars;^)
Hmmm...indeed a very bad game. Had some issues with the graphics as well IIRC, the lights on the cars that came towards you would change colour at random. Or all the lights would just dissappear.
<> I've posted comments about this subject before...so I'll just repeat myself..AGAIN:
<long rant>
1) This has been talked about before. This is VERY old news. Remember the article about the motorcycle that ran on 'bio-diesel' a while ago? (E-cycle or something or other...they must've had a LOT of marketing weasels;^)
2) 'Greasel'? Hmm...they must have a marketing weasel. Commonly known as 'bio-diesel'. There are a variety of oils that can be used as bio-diesel, some of which ARE liquid at 'normal' temperatures.
3) There was a student on/from some pacific island, who figured out that you could run diesel cars on coconut oil. The difference was that with the local ambient temperatures he didn't have to worry about heating and keeping the coconut oil fluid. (and he was never heard from again...)
4) There was a guy in Europe about 10 years ago who also had cars running on bio-diesel..I can't remember what kind of vegetable oil he used, I think he extracted it from some weed/plant. There was talk of growing the weed/plant (koolzaad?) commercially...but he was never heard of again. Happens to all these geezers who come up with the idea of running cars on bio-diesel - funny that... (No conspiracy here, sorry, probably just lack of funding, lack of commercial interest.)
5) I glanced over the article, but eh...wouldn't you need to filter the 'greasel'? BTW most grease from deep-fries can be recycled. There are companies here that do it. (here not being US:)
6) The one thing that I did NOT see mentioned on that website (after a quick glance at the FAQ):
CARS THAT RUN ON biodiesel/greasel STINK! Well, so I heard anyway...I've read articles that describe the smell from the emmissions somewhat similar to the smell of fried donuts.
Cleaner emmissions? yes please, but I'd say you'd get pretty fed up with the smell after a while. (Imagine being stuck in a traffic jam behind a car that runs on bio-diesel;P)
Having said all that, bio-diesel is probably the most suitable replacement for petrol in my opinion, as it requires little or no change to the existing petrol-delivery infrastructure all around the world. Nobody will get fired, no expensive changes to petrol-stations...perfect. Although I'm pretty sure you could cook up some homebrew bio-diesel in your backyard and put the petrol-companies out of business;)
</rant>
Wheh...time to go and put my fingers in some cold water;^)
Slashdot Mirror
So I now weigh 75kg...give or take a bit :o
Wait till I tell my fiance that her weight
fluctuates on a weekly basis!
Calm down people <> Do you know where your towel is? Got some peanuts and a couple of beers ready?
;)
:o
:^)
Right, listen...
We geeks are safe from harm...because we are
already familiar with the disaster-scenario's that this could bring about. We are PREPARED! Yes indeedy. SF writers have been pondering this stuff for years...
All we need to do is check for a solution in one of these books <<peers at ginormous bookcase stuffed with SF novels>>...the question is...which one of these novels holds the CORRECT solution?
Hmm, alternatively we can load up some cheesy FP computergame and thats bound to tell us how to beat the spawn of evil!
I'm sure the Spawn of Eternal Evil will wait half an hour while I finish a game of Doom looking for the solution
Hey, you all know how to fire a shoulder-mounted rocket-launcher, right?
If all else fails...we can ask the white mice to order a new planet for us
...eat lead buster! :P
<<clunk clunk whir whir clunk clunk>>
Well...besides the obvious comments about the OS crashing...and the robot possibly rolling into/over someone :P :P
;^)
:)
:)
(Obviously it would come to an immediate halt, but then again...it IS powered by an eeevil micro$oft product...so instead...it could go on a rampage, destroy buildings, search out it's maker, become part of the global computer defense network, go mad, develop an obsession with pinnochio, build an army of invincible shiny cyborgs, travel back in time, enslave humans and use them as power-sources...eh...nevermind
Eh...anyway...I was going to say that that wobot in the pictures looks a bit unstable to me...kinda top heavy and suffering from middle-age bloat (spare me the windoze jokes!
Nevermind crashing the OS, what if that (expensive?) machine keels over?
Hmmmm...to properly test this...we need to place one small child and/or one happy dog in the vicinity of this robot. Stand back and make sure you're wearing a helmet (and probably steel-capped boots - mind your toeses folks
Which reminds me:
A couple of years ago I watched some video footage on "America's funniest home-videos" (or some clone of that god awful program) where a remote controlled (friendly looking) robot entered a room where a whole bunch of kids where playing with toys. Obviously there was a hidden camera filming the whole thing. The producers thought it would be funny to have the kids talk to/interact with their crappy robot.
The robot was about the same size and shape as the one in the article, but instead of blue, it was completely red with a 'traditional' square robot head. (square eyes, mouth, antennas, the works
Now here's the important bit:
Much to the producers surprise (and delight) the children, upon seeing the robot enter the room, all started screaming and crying, and proceeded to assault the robot and pelt it with their toys!
Now imagine your kids at home, playing with their toys...and in comes Wobby the wobot - with DADDY's HEAD! "Hel-lo chil-dren!" Aaaugh!
Years of therapy...
"Zooming through New Zeealand landscape"
;^)
Might've been the cameraman playing with his camera whole he was sitting in the cinema
(Aha! Real purpose of footage revealed! He was trying to get a closeup of thingamajich's breasts!) Say, there wasn't any shuddering while he was filming this, was there?
BTW, just a question....could you spot the difference between a movie shot in (for example) the UK and Nieuw Zeealand?
(I know I can, but then I drive through/over it everyday - looks a lot like the UK if you ask me
"In other news, the sky is blue, the sun is hot, and sex is enjoyable."
/. man! Geez! ;^P
:^)
Hey! Whoa! Stop that man! What are you thinking? What are you doing! This is
"WTF! The sky is blue??!?! Naaaaah. You're joking right... Eh? Sun? Is that this this...daystar you've been talking about? What? Sex? Wuh-min? Uh, dude I think you've spent too much time away from your monitor man. Here, have a foo-bar and some caffeine-loaded beverage."
(Hint for moderators: No, 's not a troll, I am 'extracting the urine'
Like dude...you can assume "there's guaranteed to be more life *somewhere* in the galaxy" all you want, nobody is gonna believe you until we actually find some (proof of) life on/in a place other than earth.
:)
:) How does either one see/know that the other is alive? How does a silicon-based lifeform perceive the world? Does it actually have senses? Do those senses overlap our own?
:)
:o
;)
Let's start by looking in the obvious places first.
It doesn't matter so much WHAT we find, as long as we find something. Then we can see whether [we|life on earth] is a fluke or not. (And we can see whether or not there are/have been paralllellls in the development of either - or whether one is the origin of the other...etc etc
And obviously, by looking in obvious (and familiar) places, we increase the probability that we will actually recognize the life-forms that we find!
e.g.
Silicon life-forms? Sure...eh..ok...how do you know it's alive? What might be a hundred years to carbon-based life-forms might be 1 second of comparative time to a silicon based-lifeform (or even the inverse of that
Let's start by finding alien bacteria and stuff like that....much easier
Oh, just a thought:
** If NASA *DO* find signs of life on another planet then I think the same thing will happen as what happened with the so-called 'martian' bacteria that supposedly arrived on earth by hopping on a comet/asteroid/rock -> We will end up with endless arguments over cross-contamination and whether or not we put those bugs there in the first place.
Space might be freakin' cold and a very convenient vacuum, but it doesn't stop pollen and bacteria and god knows what else from happily travelling along with our space-probes
(And I need someone to confirm this: Was there stuff growing on the outside of ol' MIR? or is that a myth?)
I was going to add another bit on how religious groups might get upset when the scientific community announces they've found life on other planets....but that's just asking for a troll-rating (:o (Hmm...some cults/sects would be ecstatic I'd imagine
If you really want to find out how it works:
;)
Links to PS and PDF files are on this page
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~nzdl/publications/
(They are not going to like what I am about to do to their server
Ehm...maybe...there was/is a research-project :) Waikato University's
:o :o
at (*shame-less plug*
school of CS which might be able to help you out.
The idea is that you hum or whistle a tune
into the microphone and the computer will then use
some fancy pattern-matching (I think) and spit out a song(s) that match. (From memory, too tired to look it up)
I have not seen this system in action, so I couldn't tell you how good it is. I don't think it works with MP3's though
I think one of my fellow students is working on a related project...or I could just ask the people involved....if I could *find* them
website:
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz
This is the one I think:
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McNab, R.J., Smith, L.A., Witten, I.H. and Henderson, C.L. (2000)
Tune retrieval in the multimedia library Multimedia Tools and Applications,
10, 113--132. Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Thank god that site got /.ed so quickly!
;) I must
:P
<concerned voice>
As a concerned parent(-to-be-someday
warn the slashdot editors that they should take more care when posting such recklessly dangerous articles on their website! Tsk tsk tsk!
Geez, imagine if some naive slashdotter were to try that at home...no doubt he'll get carried away...start using larger bottles...larger barbie car...moving on to a decent size drum...then mounting the whole thing on an old car frame...then the ramp is deployed...the pressure rises...neighbours houses are perforated...and <*bang*> suddenly Slashdot will be the first website ever to be responsible for launching soggy geeks into orbit!!
Yes, it could happen...
1) Egad! A matrix spoiler! Sneaky f*cker! :)
:o
:-))
:^)...but once it is in place everything thereafter is a breeze at relatively 'launch' low cost and minimal/reduced risk.
:)
;P
2) A better design? Ok, what design do you suggest? From what I've seen from those 'space-research' companies that have been mentioned on slashdot over the past few weeks...well...frankly I don't think we should get too excited
My (not so original) suggestion:
((Most of this has been discussed here on slashdot before - I'll just rince and repeat and state the obvious
Let's build a space-elevator. Right now we (eh..NASA) are spending VAST amounts of money to get relatively small amounts of material into space. The risks involved in getting this material into space are astronomical.
So build a space-elevator. The initial costs are most certainly incredibly high (no pun intended: astronomical - billions of dollars
I think most people will agree with me that ONLY once we have one of these in place that we can seriously begin to explore our solar-system.
(Because we can then build our space-ships as big as want and launching them towards other planets will be a breeze
There are some hurdles...we lack some of the technology required to pull this off...(again...a question of applying plenty of moola)...and finding a location for this thing is another kettle of fish altogether.
(E.g. Right on top of Mount Kilamanjaro? I doubt the locals wil let ya)
Rockets are not the way to go. They are a stop-gap..eh..thingy...measure.
Plan B:
Invent an anti-gravity drive, stick it in your favourite rocket and forget everything I mentioned above
Yes, very dissappointing :)
I actually glanced at the blurb
and thought it said 'EAT' in there somewhere...
Hmmm...
"Stallman meets KDE Team for eats"
Yes...it could happen.
I have been using linux for ehh...about 4 or 5 years now and I have *NEVER* said 'GNU/Linux' or ever even heard anyone say 'GNU/Linux'. :)
;^)
That includes people who have been using it longer and more than I do - come to think of it...that includes people who do scary things to the linux kernel on a daily basis
The only thing we argue about is how to pronounce
linux
"linoox, lih-nuks, ly-nooks, ly-nux, lunux, lie-nuhks, lieh-nikz, lai-noox..."
Whoa dude! Calm down!
:o I suspect an acute overdose of Gibson triggered that outburst...
;)
:^)
I think you should cut down on your daily intake
of cyberpunk novels...geez, talk about doom and gloom
<obligatory silly scifi reference>
Oh...and go get changed man...those spiffy spandex pants are just not on man
(I'll leave it to other people to comment on your...ehm...interesting line of reasoning
Hmmm...the biggest problem with the animation
;)
is the fact that the faces are not animated...
<<sigh>> Static pictures/people that talk without moving their mouth or eyes does not make good animation...
If I want to watch static pictures that talk I'll watch those cheap japanese cartoons they show on tv these days...the ones that try to get kids to collect expensive trading cards.
(and turn their brains into cream-cheese
Now *THAT* is "news for nerds, stuff that matters"
;^)
;D
Finally this site produces something that is worthy of that slogan.
(And I'd damn well expect every post after this to filled to the brim with Dr Who and HHGTTG quotes & references
Now I'd better go and read the article and sneak a peek at the animation
Whats wrong with you people?
/. were to use this code/bug/feature, would that keep the trolls away? ;^)
:P
;)
:P
This is a *SPLENDID* way to keep internet exploder (l)users away from webpages.
You don't want the average person to visit your website? smiple, insert 1 wee little line of code, et voila, bob's your uncle.
Come to think of it...if
(Hah! syeah right! Wishfull thinking
<wonderful dream>
It'll take 6 months before micro$oft fixes the problem, so that'll give the rest of us six months of troll-free slashdot happiness
<reality>
Having said that, I'm using Exploder on WinMe to submit this post - but mind you, it's the first time in 2 months I've been anywhere near windows - and yes, thats a real bug, it did crash - exploder only though...I figured windows would keel over with it. How eh...dissappointing
Ironic thoughts for the day:
1) this IE bug WILL become a feature.
<insert appropriate marketspeak here>
2) This post will get rated 'Troll'
3 questions:
;^)
1) "SOFTWARE WARS"?? - must you Americans turn everything into a war? (yeah yeah, cheap shot
2) "software procurement practices by state and local governments"
eh...this is the part where Billy's evil empire feeds them (i.e. the aforementioned governments) bullsh^H^H^Hmarketing speak and sells them crap software for big bucks right?
3) Where's the other testimonies? This is interesting and all...but it tells me nuthing I haven't heard before. Much as I hate to say it...let's hear it from the other side (that doesn't just mean micro$oft.)
Yeeech! Them things look like leeches!
Miiillions and miiilions of tiny little leeches
are crawling your way, up yo...eh....
thundering your way in a flaming burning disintegrating spaceship! Yoinks!
(Hrm...maybe I shouldn't make fun of space-ship crashes...I do intend to go into space sooner or later (:o
Tsk tsk - </. editors>>
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I read that as: "Escaped mutant worms have been found alive in space-shuttle wreckage!"
Bah, they were still in their containment ehh..container. How disappointing.
I figured the little buggers had escaped and survived in the foam insulation of the space-shuttle. Maybe I should cut down on my daily
intake of science fiction
Oh well, I'm surprised they didn't find any mutant fruit-flies (also from previous experiments
or a gigantic mutant space mould.
(Wasn't one of them growing on good ol' MIR?)
Hmmm....tasty spacebugs
at the lack of references to pr0n in the posts I've seen so far...
Frankly I am quite dissappointed! The trolls must be having a day off...(syeah right!)
I can see the advertising now:
"Amazing fantastic new 3D ball monitor with 3D-o-vision? Now you can have jerks all around!"
<<runs away and hides>>
I was an extra in a locally made movie (in NZ, not in Ozzie ;) and...eh...being an extra seemed to mostly consist of ....WAITING. waiting waiting waiting....
;^) oops...wasn't supposed to tell you that..
/. after all ;)
:)
It goes like this:
- Meeting the director - cool
- Meeting the lead character (and assorted females) - neato
- Having to sign a non-disclosure agreement - worrying
- Wearing a nifty custome - very cool
- Having make up applied by people from LOTR - very cool
- Waiting for 5->6 hours in the middle of the freezing cold night (in some poky shed) - not so ehhh....cool.
- Finally filming some scenes (outside) - which takes half an hour (if that) and by God it's gotten colder outside - most excellent.
(Although it was so cold that my big red nose was probably clearly shining through the layers of zombie make-up
Would you willing to go through all that to be an extra in a star wars movie?
YES? (this is
Ok, then follow the above procedure, but imagine yourself wearing (for example) a wookie-outfit or a storm-trooper outfit...and consider what the average day-time temperatures in Ozzie are like...
Good luck matey
Good grief!Talk about controversial topics....
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:) conclusion:
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Welcome to troll-nirvana!
(Please wear troll-proof fire-retardant clothing at all times
Anyhow...
It occurs to me that your little synopsis has a distinct whiff of racism about it.
Like this (probably too simplified but...):
- GM people will be banned and/or excluded.
- This exclusion is based on genetic differences.
- Another form of exclusion, also based on
genetic differences, is racism.
- Racism is illegal (in most parts of the world)
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Hence my (smiple
You cannot exclude GM people from sports/jobs/whatever.
(BTW, NO, I did not read the article...I'm killing time waiting for that T3 trailer to download
I distinctly remember three things about this awful game:
;^)
1) It didn't matter which track you drove, they were all exactly alike. Lengths varied, but if you've seen the screenshots on the website...well...that's it. That's all you will see throughout the entire game. A highway at night. No change of scenery whatsoever.
2) You steal the cars you drive. This is shown by means of a black screen...with some strange clickety-click sounds coming from the speakers...right.
3) Whilst racing your monstrous beastly eh...not quite ferrari, not quite lamborghini car down the highway, with the engine roaring...you could hear birds singing in the trees and you could hear crickets in the grass along the highway...
(Well...I think that's were they were hiding.. - maybe they were driving the other cars
Hmmm...indeed a very bad game. Had some issues with the graphics as well IIRC, the lights on the cars that came towards you would change colour at random. Or all the lights would just dissappear.
<> I've posted comments about this subject before...so I'll just repeat myself..AGAIN:
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<long rant>
1) This has been talked about before. This is VERY old news. Remember the article about the motorcycle that ran on 'bio-diesel' a while ago?
(E-cycle or something or other...they must've had a LOT of marketing weasels
2) 'Greasel'? Hmm...they must have a marketing weasel. Commonly known as 'bio-diesel'. There are a variety of oils that can be used as bio-diesel, some of which ARE liquid at 'normal' temperatures.
3) There was a student on/from some pacific island, who figured out that you could run diesel cars on coconut oil. The difference was that with the local ambient temperatures he didn't have to worry about heating and keeping the coconut oil fluid. (and he was never heard from again...)
4) There was a guy in Europe about 10 years ago who also had cars running on bio-diesel..I can't remember what kind of vegetable oil he used, I think he extracted it from some weed/plant. There was talk of growing the weed/plant (koolzaad?) commercially...but he was never heard of again.
Happens to all these geezers who come up with the idea of running cars on bio-diesel - funny that...
(No conspiracy here, sorry, probably just lack of funding, lack of commercial interest.)
5) I glanced over the article, but eh...wouldn't you need to filter the 'greasel'? BTW most grease from deep-fries can be recycled. There are companies here that do it. (here not being US
6) The one thing that I did NOT see mentioned on that website (after a quick glance at the FAQ):
CARS THAT RUN ON biodiesel/greasel STINK!
Well, so I heard anyway...I've read articles that describe the smell from the emmissions somewhat similar to the smell of fried donuts.
Cleaner emmissions? yes please, but I'd say you'd
get pretty fed up with the smell after a while.
(Imagine being stuck in a traffic jam behind a car that runs on bio-diesel
Having said all that, bio-diesel is probably the most suitable replacement for petrol in my opinion, as it requires little or no change to the existing petrol-delivery infrastructure all around the world. Nobody will get fired, no expensive changes to petrol-stations...perfect. Although I'm pretty sure you could cook up some homebrew bio-diesel in your backyard and put the petrol-companies out of business
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Wheh...time to go and put my fingers in some cold water