You are misusing the term "jock". An athlete is one who enjoys sports. A jock is a meathead who enjoys sports and beats up geeks in high school. I assume gamers are not aspiring to become the latter.
...until the people are affected directly by it, and then there will be a backlash. They don't care that some random hacker got arrested for annoying Adobe. They will care when Windows XP tells tham that they're not allowed to play the music they just copied off a CD they bought. They will care when Passport gets cracked or DOSed and their buddy lists or email or credit card numbers are lost or stolen. They will care when someone test-drives a subscription model and they suddenly have to pay again and again for something they used to get for free. Consumer rejection killed the DivX disc, and it can still kill just about anything else that a corporation puts on the market. Last time I checked, the decision to buy or not to buy was still left to the individual consumer.
[awaits insane replies from paranoiacs contradicting last sentence]
Evangelion at least has the excuse of being sci-fi and metaphysical. You just can't avoid applying the phrase "mega galatic babes" to Tenchi and at that point you've lost the battle.
just meteors/comets which had entered the atmosphere and did what they do best...
Had a comet entered the atmosphere, today would be very dark and most of the human race would be dead. Comets are typical much larger than the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.
OS X isn't optimized for any video cards right now. Quartz is based on Display Postscript and uses lots of bezier curves and alpha blending, which current 2D cards do not accelerate. Only dragging windows uses the hardware at all, and only for the opaque part of the window.
I'm sure there's _something_ the 20 stage thing is good at:)
Yeah, giving marketing big numbers to throw around:P
I've been wondering about Athlons too... probably because Intel is a much more well-known brand. I haven't see any Athlons that are as much faster than an equivalently-clocked Pentium than the G4 is (30-100%), so it wouldn't change the outcome of the contest.
Access restrictions are great! Now I'll never have to accidentally see their shit during the five seconds between turning on the TV and hitting play on the VCR. Thanks, MPAA!
As emergent systems become more complex, "programming" their thoughts will become more and more difficult. Eventually, the three laws would have to be inserted via some form of psychological conditioning, the same way humans are given equivalent unbreakable rules.
Of course there's nothing that stops the robot from learning how his own brain works and hacking the laws out of himself.
The difference is that every tool until now has only done something that a human could already do, only better. Physical labor? Lever, power tools, cranes. Traveling? Car, airplane, spaceship. Use our senses? Media and communication technologies. An AI will be the first tool that is capable of doing something that it was not explicitly told to do by a human supervisor, and that has never happened before.
The theory of Dr. Cid (not Sid) was that life has a wave component, or can exist as a wave. They wanted to gather spirits (individual life forms with unique waves) so that they could superimpose their waves to generate a wave 180 degrees out of phase with the wave of the phantoms, which would nullify them. Standard Fourier and wave theory, in the magical land of anime of course.
It's a huge fucking gun. What more do you need?:) Perhaps it was also built with Cid's wave theories (see below).
He's less of an ass than a lot of other villains I could think of...
Humans seem to be able to hold off the phantoms, at least the little ones, with weapons they have. Plus, the impact crater may have been very far from the city. They would have had time to encounter the phantoms, see that they are a great danger, and construct the barrier quickly.
Yes, it requires a lot of suspension of disbelief and wierd justifications. So does anime, and no one complains about that (this much).
That would require that the proxy be running on an account at the other ISP (unless I misunderstand you), which someone is paying for, so the ISP still gets money.
Space tourism isn't going to take off period until it approaches the cost of a vacation to anywhere else via airplane, and people seem perfectly happy to pay the existing taxes on that.
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You are misusing the term "jock". An athlete is one who enjoys sports. A jock is a meathead who enjoys sports and beats up geeks in high school. I assume gamers are not aspiring to become the latter.
I would say it's a sign of misplaced intelligence. That is, placed somewhere other than the troll's brain.
All the numbers are divisible by 1!!! Gimme the cash!
...until the people are affected directly by it, and then there will be a backlash. They don't care that some random hacker got arrested for annoying Adobe. They will care when Windows XP tells tham that they're not allowed to play the music they just copied off a CD they bought. They will care when Passport gets cracked or DOSed and their buddy lists or email or credit card numbers are lost or stolen. They will care when someone test-drives a subscription model and they suddenly have to pay again and again for something they used to get for free. Consumer rejection killed the DivX disc, and it can still kill just about anything else that a corporation puts on the market. Last time I checked, the decision to buy or not to buy was still left to the individual consumer.
[awaits insane replies from paranoiacs contradicting last sentence]
Evangelion at least has the excuse of being sci-fi and metaphysical. You just can't avoid applying the phrase "mega galatic babes" to Tenchi and at that point you've lost the battle.
This gives a whole new meaning to the term "rock solid stability".
::musical sting::
::studio audience laughs::
NASA is so far over budget because their budget is so unreasonably low.
OS X isn't optimized for any video cards right now. Quartz is based on Display Postscript and uses lots of bezier curves and alpha blending, which current 2D cards do not accelerate. Only dragging windows uses the hardware at all, and only for the opaque part of the window.
I've been wondering about Athlons too... probably because Intel is a much more well-known brand. I haven't see any Athlons that are as much faster than an equivalently-clocked Pentium than the G4 is (30-100%), so it wouldn't change the outcome of the contest.
So I'll stop watching movies and TV. No big loss there.
Access restrictions are great! Now I'll never have to accidentally see their shit during the five seconds between turning on the TV and hitting play on the VCR. Thanks, MPAA!
As emergent systems become more complex, "programming" their thoughts will become more and more difficult. Eventually, the three laws would have to be inserted via some form of psychological conditioning, the same way humans are given equivalent unbreakable rules.
Of course there's nothing that stops the robot from learning how his own brain works and hacking the laws out of himself.
The difference is that every tool until now has only done something that a human could already do, only better. Physical labor? Lever, power tools, cranes. Traveling? Car, airplane, spaceship. Use our senses? Media and communication technologies. An AI will be the first tool that is capable of doing something that it was not explicitly told to do by a human supervisor, and that has never happened before.
I'd like to know where he got the number for the human brain's ability.
...or is the APOD really bad? I could do that in 10 minutes with pov-ray.
Even better would be the sound your computer emits as you delete the only copy of the key to that archive.
Yes, it requires a lot of suspension of disbelief and wierd justifications. So does anime, and no one complains about that (this much).
That would require that the proxy be running on an account at the other ISP (unless I misunderstand you), which someone is paying for, so the ISP still gets money.
...isn't this the exact same idea I posted some time ago to a different story? (this one). Should have patented it, dammit :P
Unix will take the server market. Microsoft will hold the desktop. Which is more valuable is arguable. Nothing else to say, really.
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I hope they name the prototype Spencer Talos.
Space tourism isn't going to take off period until it approaches the cost of a vacation to anywhere else via airplane, and people seem perfectly happy to pay the existing taxes on that.
However, if they treat space as an exception...
I can imagine it easily: Zero. The GRAPE units can't do RC5. Read the article.