It appears that the parent was assuming that haptic genital feedback would be "shitty" and that in order to get any sort of feeling out of virtual sex, you'd have to hump a wall or something like that.
Granted, but we're talking different things. Carl Sagan was talking about believing in people's ideas. All the parent was talking about was giving them taxpayers' money....
Well, that doesn't mean you should dismiss the idea out hand per se. I don't have too much of a problem with the government throwing money at research of debatable practicality if the research is done responsibly. It sounds like a dumb idea, (gorilla arm and all that) but I suppose it could be pretty slick if you did it right.
The point of these articles shouldn't be "ZOMG WE'RE GOING TO GET TAKEN OVER BY COMMIES/JAPAN/WHATEVER" (even though a sensationalist press loves to cover that angle) but instead "Other countries are better than us at this thing. Why can't we get some of that action?"
Scientist1: Dude, look at this plastic. When it comes in contact with ultraviolet light, the plastic forms bonds with itself, causing it to change shape.
Scientist2: Awesome! If you hit it with another frequency, the proccess reverses itself.
Businessman: Hm. What sort of applications do you think this could have?
Scientist2: App-li-kay-shuns?
Scientist1: Uh, you could make toys out of it. Or... maybe like you could have it bend into... uh... medical things. For medicine.
As much as I admit you can't trust the government, I don't see your reasoning that companies will somehow be better.
I mean, the free market doesn't really work for things like that because it's fairly easy for companies to sell your information in secret, and if customers aren't aware of something, market forces can't fix the problem.
People are greedy (not just in capitalism mind you, but in general) and will screw you over behind your back as much as they can, and in front of your face as much as you will tolerate.
Unless you're talking purely hypothetical, in which case I'd rather pay for magic elf powered Internet.
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Hitchhiker's Guide movie is about and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Oh of course. I come here for the intelligent discussions.
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Actually, the writers got bored of killing off Kenny a while ago, and then killed him off for good, and then got bored of that and brought him back to life but they only kill him now on special occasions.
It kind of did in "The Joy of Sect." I mean, not directly, (the Movementarianism movement was more of a hodge podge of whatever cults seemed funny) but c'mon.
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Legal code reads like Perl to me, so I'm not really sure how much information they're planning on the chips, but how would this be any different with the current system: where every car is required to have a metal plate which projects an ID code and information on when the car was last inspected over the visual spectrum?
I can understand the need for privacy, but when the information is already out there, it seems silly to get excited about something like this.
Except with statistics, deviation from the mathematical model can itself be described through mathematics.
But I would argee with you that the universe is probably not "fundamentally" mathematical. Instead, mathematics is just a really useful tool for describing things.
That's the trick. Be an unpopular character on a scifi series, and all the Slashdotters will love you. Trust me, in a few years, Ahmed Best will get a blog and register on Slashdot, and we'll all over him.
I believe that because the brain is still developing, infant memories often don't survive in any form. But otherwise, yes, that would amazingly cool. Although if we were going to do computer-brain interfaces, there are of course many many other awesomely neat things you could do.
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Yeah, and he's not really paranoid either. People don't really know what words mean.
Nobody writes jokes in base-13.
It appears that the parent was assuming that haptic genital feedback would be "shitty" and that in order to get any sort of feeling out of virtual sex, you'd have to hump a wall or something like that.
Granted, but we're talking different things. Carl Sagan was talking about believing in people's ideas. All the parent was talking about was giving them taxpayers' money. ...
Well, that doesn't mean you should dismiss the idea out hand per se. I don't have too much of a problem with the government throwing money at research of debatable practicality if the research is done responsibly. It sounds like a dumb idea, (gorilla arm and all that) but I suppose it could be pretty slick if you did it right.
The point of these articles shouldn't be "ZOMG WE'RE GOING TO GET TAKEN OVER BY COMMIES/JAPAN/WHATEVER" (even though a sensationalist press loves to cover that angle) but instead "Other countries are better than us at this thing. Why can't we get some of that action?"
You have to appreciate the mind of a scientist.
Scientist1: Dude, look at this plastic. When it comes in contact with ultraviolet light, the plastic forms bonds with itself, causing it to change shape.
Scientist2: Awesome! If you hit it with another frequency, the proccess reverses itself.
Businessman: Hm. What sort of applications do you think this could have?
Scientist2: App-li-kay-shuns?
Scientist1: Uh, you could make toys out of it. Or... maybe like you could have it bend into... uh... medical things. For medicine.
Businessman: I'm cutting your funding.
Scientist1: WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME?!?
As much as I admit you can't trust the government, I don't see your reasoning that companies will somehow be better.
I mean, the free market doesn't really work for things like that because it's fairly easy for companies to sell your information in secret, and if customers aren't aware of something, market forces can't fix the problem.
People are greedy (not just in capitalism mind you, but in general) and will screw you over behind your back as much as they can, and in front of your face as much as you will tolerate.
Unless you're talking purely hypothetical, in which case I'd rather pay for magic elf powered Internet.
Granted but, he was very much an atheist as noted in several places
(Although according to that article when he did the first radio series he was more along the lines of one of those wishy-washy agnostic types.)
If you ask any theorist of property rights, he will tell you that homesteading occurs when someone calls dibs.
Well yes actually. F = ma doesn't apply for relativistic speeds. Also, as Wikipedia puts it, not all fields hold the word to the same standard.
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Hitchhiker's Guide movie is about and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Oh of course. I come here for the intelligent discussions.
Actually, the writers got bored of killing off Kenny a while ago, and then killed him off for good, and then got bored of that and brought him back to life but they only kill him now on special occasions.
Sounds a little negative to me. I'll have to give it my lowest rating ever: seven thumbs up.
It kind of did in "The Joy of Sect." I mean, not directly, (the Movementarianism movement was more of a hodge podge of whatever cults seemed funny) but c'mon.
*tumbleweed rolls by*
Legal code reads like Perl to me, so I'm not really sure how much information they're planning on the chips, but how would this be any different with the current system: where every car is required to have a metal plate which projects an ID code and information on when the car was last inspected over the visual spectrum?
I can understand the need for privacy, but when the information is already out there, it seems silly to get excited about something like this.
Except with statistics, deviation from the mathematical model can itself be described through mathematics.
But I would argee with you that the universe is probably not "fundamentally" mathematical. Instead, mathematics is just a really useful tool for describing things.
Actually I liked it. That bit of angst allowed us to get closer to CmdrTaco, letting us have a more intimate connection with Slashdot.
Of course, I read Megatokyo, so maybe I have an atypical reaction to angst.
I'm 18, and I used to watch Mr. Wizard when I was a little kid. Nickelodeon used to air his 80s era show in the wee hours of the morning for a while.
But Bill Nye certainly had a more accessable timeslot.
That's the trick. Be an unpopular character on a scifi series, and all the Slashdotters will love you. Trust me, in a few years, Ahmed Best will get a blog and register on Slashdot, and we'll all over him.
I believe that because the brain is still developing, infant memories often don't survive in any form. But otherwise, yes, that would amazingly cool. Although if we were going to do computer-brain interfaces, there are of course many many other awesomely neat things you could do.
Not everyone knows C. Everyone who reads (the english) Wikipedia speaks English.
People do that right now, and they get deleted with severe prejudice. (Sometimes banned, which is a power Wikipedia admins do have.)
I believe Google may have originally added that feature just to show off how much better their query times were than say... Altavista or Yahoo.