Because the technology needed to do the things you mentioned is very similar to the technology needed to make nice trees, and the nice tree thing has the potential to pay for itself, while at the same time advancing our technological base enough to make increasing food productions, making backup organs, and fighting diseases far easier.
Unless, of course, someone develops the technology to make the nice trees and then patents it with one of those absurdly broad patents that are all the rage these days, preventing that technology from being used for more altruistic purposes. That would just suck.
But if the American people learned how to effectively detect bullshit, everyone currently holding an elected office in the country would be out of a job.
The screenshot linked to in the parent post is what the poster describes. It is not a screenshot of goatse.cx or something along that lines, so those of you with weak stomachs or who are browsing from work don't have to worry about clicking it.
More satisfied, definitely. I have no problem with writers pulling a new substance out of their asses to use as a plot device for a comic-book movie. It's when they use an existing substance in an attempt to sound "realistic" but get all its properties wrond that I start to get pissed off.
Actually, the T-1000 always did exactly what it was designed and programmed to do.
Hell, ED-209 did, too. The only problem was that what it was programmed to do and what the guy demonstrating it thought it was programmed to do were quite different.
If they wrote the website in standards-compliant HTML, then no one using IE would be able to view it properly, and if they wrote it to be viewed correctly in IE, then everyone with a different version of IE from what the page was written for would have problems, since they all break the standard in a different way. Shockwave is the only to make a reasonably complicated website that can be viewed on a reasonably variety of computers. They'd all have to be running Windows, yes, but it would no longer matter which Windows version/IE version they had.
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Combine "Typing of the Dead" with voice-recognition software?
Because the technology needed to do the things you mentioned is very similar to the technology needed to make nice trees, and the nice tree thing has the potential to pay for itself, while at the same time advancing our technological base enough to make increasing food productions, making backup organs, and fighting diseases far easier.
Unless, of course, someone develops the technology to make the nice trees and then patents it with one of those absurdly broad patents that are all the rage these days, preventing that technology from being used for more altruistic purposes. That would just suck.
But if the American people learned how to effectively detect bullshit, everyone currently holding an elected office in the country would be out of a job.
No. Emmett Brown is God.
The screenshot linked to in the parent post is what the poster describes. It is not a screenshot of goatse.cx or something along that lines, so those of you with weak stomachs or who are browsing from work don't have to worry about clicking it.
Just throught I'd let you know.
Would that "thump" be the sound of the robot hitting the ground after it BSODs?
In the last 4 years I've watched 0hrs of tv - not exagerating...
overall, I've probably watched less than 5 hours of tv over the last 4 years.
Does not compute.
Star Wars Episode III: Some Damn Fool Idealistic Crusade
side question: would we be terrorists or freedom fighters?
That all depends on who wins.
-bash: rm-: command not found.
Harry Osborne is the second Green Goblin, not the Hobgoblin. Robert Kingsley was the first Hobgoblin.
More satisfied, definitely. I have no problem with writers pulling a new substance out of their asses to use as a plot device for a comic-book movie. It's when they use an existing substance in an attempt to sound "realistic" but get all its properties wrond that I start to get pissed off.
Spidey's webs bio-degrade after an hour or two.
That's a self-contradictory statement.
Well, there is the Sydney in Nova Scotia, Canada.
A human is anyone with a Solarian accent.
Actually, the T-1000 always did exactly what it was designed and programmed to do.
Hell, ED-209 did, too. The only problem was that what it was programmed to do and what the guy demonstrating it thought it was programmed to do were quite different.
Forgot the line number and didn't properly end the program.
The bullet is enormous...there is no escaping! Jumping...is useless!
That's because you're supposed to duck them. There's pretty much always an indentation in the ground when those things come after you.
Of course, if you're riding Yoshi at the time, you're pretty much screwed.
Then you've been living in a hole for the past twenty years, possibly longer.
printf is an undeclared function in that case, and you didn't provide a datatype or return value for main() (valis, maybe, but still sloppy.)
Wouldn't Osiris have prior art on that?
Yes, but nitpicking is fun!
If they wrote the website in standards-compliant HTML, then no one using IE would be able to view it properly, and if they wrote it to be viewed correctly in IE, then everyone with a different version of IE from what the page was written for would have problems, since they all break the standard in a different way. Shockwave is the only to make a reasonably complicated website that can be viewed on a reasonably variety of computers. They'd all have to be running Windows, yes, but it would no longer matter which Windows version/IE version they had.
The best way to do it would be to set up a projector beside your bed pointing upwards. Same effect, but much less likely to cause a fatal injury.