I felt it too. It's like a large evil creature with large teeth and claws with a hunger for human flesh and souls is lurking in the darkness behind you.
But that's enough talking about lawyers..
No worries! I've hired, well, captured and enslaved, 150 people who go over all the code I download before letting it touch my porn-fileservers.
This is just too important to leave to a program or people who do not have to fear for their lifes.
Finally, if replicators can easily create new replicators, how can anybody possibly hope to keep such things from becoming widespread?
Natural selection.
Picture this: Some guy with a replicator ordering:
"Plutonium, weapon grade, 50Kg".
Now picture the look on his face when his newly replicated plutonium becomes supercritical only a few metres away from him.
Nobody and their neighbours makes such a mistake twice.
The same American Way of Life everyone living under the America TV influence has.
We get:
American TV,
American hamburgers,
American Jeans,
American cowboyhats (well, some do...),
American drinks (luckely no American beers, we're copying, but we're not masochists),
American T-shirts,
American words
Send a spacecraft up and steal the satelite? Now if they wouldn't have wasted so much time and money on the space shuttle, the US could just go up and liberate some enemy satelites, then sell them on Ebay.
All words were made-up at some point in our history, they aren't passed down from the Flying Spagetti Monster or any other deity. New words are made-up all the time and when they are used by a larger number of people they end up in the dictionary. Language is a living, evolving thing. Learn to live with it or start speaking classic latin.
You know, I have an MA in Literary and Rhetorical theory
Yes, but do you work at Burger King or McDonalds?/stereotypical_joke
No seriously, I always wondered what people with such degrees (literacy and similar) do. Do you work just in research and education, or are there jobs in the industry (like newspaper or publishers)?
Not necessary: It's much easier to plug an PCI card in an older PC than it is to plug a multicore Processor in a PII socket. There are a lot of situations where it's too risky to replace a working computer by a new one. Such a card could provide some additional protection in such situations.
But for the home PC I suppose you're right that this tech has little use. Perhaps if the price is very low and they got a good marketing departement they may sell some of these cards to Joe Sixpack.
I see another race comming: The increase of processor cores on a die Vs the increase of standard uses for cores. Perhaps in a few years we'll have standard cores for certain applications like anti-virus. We'll might go towards using cores and software rather than special (single purpose) hardware. Physics cards will not be necessary as we could run physics-simulation on a core with the game on (several) other(s). I guess we're going to see more Winmodem-like hardware.
IMO the US represents more of a variation on the classic french monarchy. An almighty king who needs a group of nobility to help keep his power on the nation. Except that the king is replaced by an "elected" president and a bunch of "elected" members of parliament and various others. The nobility in this case are all those rich enough to buy their own politicians.
So what we need to do is to raise the funds to buy ("rent" might be a more correct term) our own politicians. So we can buy our own laws.
Or we could hire the A-team, which may be a more economic plan.
You might want to consult a map. Belgium sits between France on one side and The Netherlands and Germany on the other. the North Sea to the, well, north and Luxembourg to the south.
It would be correct if you said that Flanders sat between France and Holland.
Bad roads are there for a reason. Same as the lack of traffic signs. What that reason might be nobody knows. But I suppose we can trust our politicians on that...
Belgium is famous for more than just those 2 examples. For example beer, and one of the best social security systems of the world. Which is quite convienant as the state gives you money to buy beer so you forget your unemployment-problems. We're also the country that consumes the most anti-depresiva. Mostly by those not unemployed as you're not allowed to be drunk at work.
Actually laughing with terrorism is a good thing. Terrorism is about terror, not murder. The fact people are killed in, e.g. a bombing, is a means, not a goal. The goal is to control other peoples lives, to induce fear. There is absolutly no point in taking the threath of terrorism seriously (as long as you're not a government official, that is.) as all that leads to is fear. In essence fearing terrorists, places them a bit closer to their goal. As long as people make jokes, the terrorist haven't won, as they don't have become our main fear. The day people stop joking will be the day to start studying the Koran.
Do you now understand what Steam is? HL2 was designed to analyse how people would rebel against a suppressive regime. Via Steam all those gamers were analysed and with that data they modified their practices. After HL3 rebellion will be impossible and the 1000 year lasting copyright empire will be a fact.
You may not believe this, but the government is already changing your enviroment to prevent rebelion. Here is some prove:
* Go outside and look in garbage bins, crates and dark corners. You notice all the healthpacks, weapons, ammo and powerups are gone.
* Get a crowbar (if you can find one, see above) and try to break open a crate. You find that they have made them of incredible strong material.
* Go to a restricted area (like an army bunker), you'll find that the key or code for a locked door is suddenly no longer hidden on your side of the door.
* Try to buy some instant-health-pack. These are suddenly no longer available. Shop-keepers have already got their memories altered about these items and wouldn't know what you're talking about. Even magical items are no longer in stock.
* Jump up against a concrete brick. Instead of the brick breaking up and you getting a coin, you'll get a headache and no brickbreaking.
As you can see, they're acting fast, so start collecting any magic mushrooms, flowers and stars you can find. Before even those are gone...
Slashdot Mirror
I felt it too. It's like a large evil creature with large teeth and claws with a hunger for human flesh and souls is lurking in the darkness behind you.
But that's enough talking about lawyers..
No worries! I've hired, well, captured and enslaved, 150 people who go over all the code I download before letting it touch my porn-fileservers.
This is just too important to leave to a program or people who do not have to fear for their lifes.
Picture this: Some guy with a replicator ordering: "Plutonium, weapon grade, 50Kg".
Now picture the look on his face when his newly replicated plutonium becomes supercritical only a few metres away from him.
Nobody and their neighbours makes such a mistake twice.
So Saddam's WMDs are now in Norway I suppose?
Actually, there is a TV program on Belgian national TV that is about pregnancy and they do show the whole thing.
Ah, so I may expect to receive the stuff I bought on Ebay any day now.
The same American Way of Life everyone living under the America TV influence has.
We get:
American TV,
American hamburgers,
American Jeans,
American cowboyhats (well, some do...),
American drinks (luckely no American beers, we're copying, but we're not masochists),
American T-shirts,
American words
You might spot a little trend here.
Just realise the thruth: There is no Duke Nukem Forever.
Ebay?
Send a spacecraft up and steal the satelite? Now if they wouldn't have wasted so much time and money on the space shuttle, the US could just go up and liberate some enemy satelites, then sell them on Ebay.
Two words: sacre blue!
(Just to be a smart ass and point out this is quite an old practice that predates BSG by a few hundred years.)
All words were made-up at some point in our history, they aren't passed down from the Flying Spagetti Monster or any other deity. New words are made-up all the time and when they are used by a larger number of people they end up in the dictionary. Language is a living, evolving thing. Learn to live with it or start speaking classic latin.
No seriously, I always wondered what people with such degrees (literacy and similar) do. Do you work just in research and education, or are there jobs in the industry (like newspaper or publishers)?
Not necessary: It's much easier to plug an PCI card in an older PC than it is to plug a multicore Processor in a PII socket. There are a lot of situations where it's too risky to replace a working computer by a new one. Such a card could provide some additional protection in such situations.
But for the home PC I suppose you're right that this tech has little use. Perhaps if the price is very low and they got a good marketing departement they may sell some of these cards to Joe Sixpack.
I see another race comming: The increase of processor cores on a die Vs the increase of standard uses for cores. Perhaps in a few years we'll have standard cores for certain applications like anti-virus. We'll might go towards using cores and software rather than special (single purpose) hardware. Physics cards will not be necessary as we could run physics-simulation on a core with the game on (several) other(s). I guess we're going to see more Winmodem-like hardware.
IMO the US represents more of a variation on the classic french monarchy. An almighty king who needs a group of nobility to help keep his power on the nation. Except that the king is replaced by an "elected" president and a bunch of "elected" members of parliament and various others. The nobility in this case are all those rich enough to buy their own politicians.
So what we need to do is to raise the funds to buy ("rent" might be a more correct term) our own politicians. So we can buy our own laws.
Or we could hire the A-team, which may be a more economic plan.
Now I finaly have place to store all those borrowed Windows and Office CD images.
No more dragging around dozens of CD-R's!
You might want to consult a map. Belgium sits between France on one side and The Netherlands and Germany on the other. the North Sea to the, well, north and Luxembourg to the south.
It would be correct if you said that Flanders sat between France and Holland.
Bad roads are there for a reason. Same as the lack of traffic signs. What that reason might be nobody knows. But I suppose we can trust our politicians on that...
Belgium is famous for more than just those 2 examples. For example beer, and one of the best social security systems of the world. Which is quite convienant as the state gives you money to buy beer so you forget your unemployment-problems. We're also the country that consumes the most anti-depresiva. Mostly by those not unemployed as you're not allowed to be drunk at work.
The French-German border is called Belgium you insensitive clod!
Actually laughing with terrorism is a good thing. Terrorism is about terror, not murder. The fact people are killed in, e.g. a bombing, is a means, not a goal. The goal is to control other peoples lives, to induce fear. There is absolutly no point in taking the threath of terrorism seriously (as long as you're not a government official, that is.) as all that leads to is fear. In essence fearing terrorists, places them a bit closer to their goal. As long as people make jokes, the terrorist haven't won, as they don't have become our main fear. The day people stop joking will be the day to start studying the Koran.
Makes me wonder if the Soviets had their own "2001" movie studio to shoot their moon^H^H^H^Hvenuslandings...
Obviously, it's a patent for making scratches on a CD or DVD. Instead of just being unable to use a damaged disk, you'll get sued as well.
Do you now understand what Steam is? HL2 was designed to analyse how people would rebel against a suppressive regime. Via Steam all those gamers were analysed and with that data they modified their practices. After HL3 rebellion will be impossible and the 1000 year lasting copyright empire will be a fact.
You may not believe this, but the government is already changing your enviroment to prevent rebelion. Here is some prove:
* Go outside and look in garbage bins, crates and dark corners. You notice all the healthpacks, weapons, ammo and powerups are gone.
* Get a crowbar (if you can find one, see above) and try to break open a crate. You find that they have made them of incredible strong material. * Go to a restricted area (like an army bunker), you'll find that the key or code for a locked door is suddenly no longer hidden on your side of the door.
* Try to buy some instant-health-pack. These are suddenly no longer available. Shop-keepers have already got their memories altered about these items and wouldn't know what you're talking about. Even magical items are no longer in stock.
* Jump up against a concrete brick. Instead of the brick breaking up and you getting a coin, you'll get a headache and no brickbreaking.
As you can see, they're acting fast, so start collecting any magic mushrooms, flowers and stars you can find. Before even those are gone...