http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disk The information on a standard CD is encoded as a spiral track of pits moulded into the top of the polycarbonate layer
Sometimes it's true: the more things change, the more they stay the same. The preffered method for lengthy data storage still involves making an impression.
The oldest methods of "data storage" go back to the birth of written language. These involved either making impressions in the sand, or for more permanent storage making engravings into stone.
The number two, for instance, is a motion, and five is a clap of thunder.
I'm wondering, do you think that perhaps if we could present someone with this man's abilities an interface to some kind for a programming language that he could also achieve amazing things?
maybe vocal recognition or a motion-capture interface? He did say he is making his own language.
For instance, if he combines these abstract ideas in his mind in a mechanical way he is showing the ability to visualize details of und use complex concepts with amazing precision.
what is a chunk of code if not merely an amazingly complex concept?
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I guess the question is, can one really play that game at all?
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Hmm. OK. But trivia with Wikipedia seems pretty easy; since so much knowledge is available. Let's play something more like...counter-trivia. yeah, that sounds good.
Here is the challenge: Name 10 common, generic, everyday things that are NOT in Wikipedia.
I am an audiophile, and If you are to play vinyl through headphones to someone in the next room they will not be able to tell the difference between the original source and a digital recording of the vinyl playback. A digital recording can have a superset of all measurable audio components - spectrum and amplitude.
And as for the aliasing of digital recordings, when the sound hits the air it IS analog it becomes analog. When you use very high quality digital audio recordings you can capture and reproduce sounds that begin to (and for all intents do) border on the limits of they physics of sound itself.
Digital is superior in every way to analog. it is a myth that a person can hear the difference in a sufficciently high sample-rate recording.
Imagine an analog recording like a wooden box. You can hold it and carry it around. eventually it will begin to wear and tear.
Digital is like the knowledge of how to build that box. everytime you want to use the box you can build it from scratch instantaneously and you have a perfect, brand new box.
Sure, it's made out of wood from a different tree than your last box - but it is in better shape and the wood which you construct it out is of the same type and is stronger since it is unworn.
Furthermore, with the eventual advent of exponentially more sophisticated computation we will see the ability to record sound and reproduce it in such a way that it could be called seamless.
This will be accomplished not by a direct imprint on some meduim, but via an informational representation (analogous to digital) which will so dwarf the capabilities of the ancient idea of analog recordings that those who said analog is superior will be gaffawed in a similar fashion as we laugh at the gentleman below for his statements.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." - Marshal Ferdinand Foch [Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre] (circa 1911) He was Supreme Commander of Allied forces, 1918
He held a similar attachment to the classical way of doing things and saw inherent superiority in his beliefs.
He was wrong for reasons blatently obvious from the perspective of the modern day.
Even in your site's nascent stage I am very exited someone has gone and actually taken a swipe at this perplexing idea of creating a formal debate forum!
Furthermore, this initial alpha looks very promising!! to see someone actually creating a system designed specifically for debate is very exciting! If you search for other debate forums you can quickly see they are simply standard threaded forums which have no structure geared at all towards a formal debate.
I think I will create the opening argument on the debate of time travel into the past, since I've wiled away many-a nights discussing the implications and reality of such a thing.
Require that 5 editors approve of a content addition/change before that modification is applied.
Track the editor's moderation record. Make negative modding count both against the negative moderator as well as the moderated.
This way only by getting 5 positive mods in x number of editor views can an addition get approved.
There certainly has to be a way to handle the vandalism and pettiness. slashdot's moderation system seems to do a great job of handling just that.
I mean, as an example, cruise slashdot at +5 and you get some good meat. drop to +4 and you've got your side of fries (or potatoes), +3 to eat your vegetables +2 for fiber +1 for garnish and 0&-1 for a dark alley to purge yourself in an anorexic fit.
Just cruise the first couple posts on this thread and take a gander at what allowing anyone to post anything brings...
I know there are problems with the slashdot moderation system - but as a whole it's a good system which tends to bring the most relevant and informative posts to the top of the heap. I would venture to say the slashdot moderation system is one of the most effective user-based moderation systems in existence.
Now, since I'm not familiar (and like to read the contributions of individuals), tell me; how closely does the slasdot moderation system currently relate to the wikipedia moderation system?
as an afterthought and to browse off topic (further?) since the inception of politics.slashdot.org I have contemplated the idea of something like a debate.slashdot.org
It's quite a tricky notion to convieve - how could you setup something akin to a formal debate in the form of a web forum? I mean, it seems all the lego pieces are here, robust moderation system, informed parties abounding with great skills at backing claims.
Would you somehow create opposing teams by using a vote system? how would you determine the representative for the side of the debate?
mark my words. With slashdot and wikipedia we have only begun to see the possibilities of massive contribution of free thought.
well, I certainly agree with you that the blind would not be "seeing" a picture - but my point is that a camera could translate images into sensations which a blind person could interpret and judge their surroundings by.
Try this - look around the room. Now close your eyes (not before you finish reading this though:) and then hold out your hand.
Move your hand around and imagine that you can feel the room, feel the wall, the carpet, the chair. It's not a far stretch of the imagination.
This is what I am talking about, translating light into a tactile representation.
Of course, pressure is not a robust-enough sensation to translate images into a comprehensive tactile experience. Which is why I've prognosticated the eventual direct stimulation of nerves in order to communicate different feelings, like hard, soft, wet, dry, vibrating...so on and so forth.
The pallete of touch is great and varied.
Now I am not talking, either, of a "direct" translation of the image captured into a "picture" . Rather I would think that some sort of interpretation would be incorporated.
What would be most useful would be a way to communicate spacial information about the environment to a blind person - create some way with the tactile suit to inform them that there is a wall directly ahed and that they are about 10 feet from it.
Just imagine walking through your house in the middle of the night - how you hold your hands out in front of you scanning for objects.
Now imagine if you could feel out about 10 feet - 20 feet - 100 feet.
I would think this could work. Even though a blind person cannot see, or has never seen, an object they have felt that object. It's just a matter of allowing them to feel it when it is out of range of touch.
At any rate, it's complete speculation on my part, but I don't see any problems with enabling those without sight with this ability.
if you brush your hand over your keyboard or mousepad and close your eyes can you not construct an image?
Do you really think such an ability is only the relm of the sighted?
Certainly they with no sight will have a different image, but will it be any less nuanced?
I think not.
With my wacko conjecture above I am merely imagining that you could take a camera and a graphical tactile glove and via stimulation could translate an image taken with a normal light-sensing camera into a tactile representation.
This device in the article is only pressure, but with time we will find how to interface better with nerves directly.
lastly I've seen no mention of blindness causing atrophy to the occipital lobe.
The only time blindness is directly realted to the visual cortex is when the cortex itself has either developed badly or has been damaged.
The occipital lobe is a great big region of very good nerves which you use whenever you "image"ine anything. It is not used soley to process external stimuli. It also processes internal stimuli.
I have little doubt that the blind lack imagination.
Ever seen anyone stare off into space when thinking really hard?...or not hard for that matter...anyhow they are "seeing" stuff in their heads. The eyes, at this point, are a distraction.
I've been "lost in thought" before to the point where my driving is forgotten!
more than color this could allow a blind person virtual 360 degree vision.
or anyone for that matter.
If you had a camera mounted on your back it could translate the image it captures into a type of virtual mosiac. It could do this via a body-wide graphical tactile display of high resolution.
then interpret/transfer that image to a "shirt" of this material - or a whole skinsuit.
So this way you could actually "feel" motion behind you. Perhaps you would even get very good at it too. It is not a far stretch to imagine that a person who has never seen could navigate in a chaotic environment just as well as someone with sight.
with the interpretation of the camera's image into "pixels" on your skin what's to keep the camera from zooming in if you wish it to? Imagine being able to feel a bird in a tree several hundred meters away.
A good place for graphical tactile response would be, of course, the hands but the lips are very touch sensitive.
And to that color point. If you were to transpose the camera's pixels into actual direct stimulation of the nerves in your skin then what is to keep you from having different sensations than pressure ?
Why not stimulate a stretching sensation? or I can imagine things that would best be represented with a soft sensation.....you know, puppies and kittens;); Yes, this kind of research is great. It's immediate benefit is of course for the less fortunate, but it's real benifit is for us all. That's the best kind of science.
The times I ran into lag it turned out to be client-side.
the netcode is very impressive. I think the whole design of the SWG enterprise was based around scalability. Early in the beta I was flying towards the tatooine space station and I estimated that I was rendering around 100 spacecraft flying about the station (i have a screenshot, need to corraborate that)- the netcode "view distance" was then scaled down, since this undoubtedly caused processor lag (and the netcode was likely maxxed out), nevertheless I was very impressed by that many clients being rendered in realtime.
The graphics engine is great, it's huge. it's expansive. eventually they will make an FPS with it (planetside seems to use a scaled-down version of this engine). I bought this game for the graphics engine - sometimes I just turn off the lights - turn off the games HUD and zoom in to first-person view, just to suspend my disbelief and pretend that I am actually standing in coronet on corellia.
The sounds are wonderful as well:)
I'm not a big RPGer, but I've had lots of fun playing this game. Now, I AM a big simmer - so JTL is just wonderful:)
All in all I think this game is great. Of course, that's an opinion and as we all know, it's pointless to argue tastes.
Ok right off the bat: does he actually mean, "soon there will be a $100 PC?" what with the trending down of file size due to compression and the deflation of adequate internet-usable pc hadware how could they not become $100?.. I mean....oh god it's all just FUD isn't it!?
let me acutally RTFriggin'A
There has to be...a $100 computer to go down-market in some of these countries. We have to engineer (PCs) to be lighter and cheaper,
sounds like the auto industry's way of stifling inovation to squeeze profits.
Ballmer said piracy of Microsoft's Windows and Office software in emerging markets has become a major concern for the software giant, especially among business users who can afford to pay for software.
i've always wondered. why would you want to pay for software over a programmer? Because It's cheaper, it's easier. But is it better? Cheaper and Easier isn't always Better. (cheapest and really hard can be very good, I think you'll agree:)
"PCs are not selling to the lower end of the population in China and India. People buying machines there are relatively affluent. So...should the prices be lower? Not really. Until government and situational factors reduce piracy...those people...don't pay," Ballmer said.
Oh, they'll pay alright. one day, I'll make THEM PAY!!!! ahahahaha!!
Balmer didn't say that, I did.
But lower prices have become part of Microsoft's strategy for gaining market share in developing nations. In recent months, the software maker has announced plans to introduce low-cost "starter editions" of Windows XP into countries including India, Russia and Thailand. These versions will be bundled only with entry-level PCs and will not be available for retail sale.
are these guys friggin wizards of FUD or what!? Starter editions? What is redmond up to? I'm sure at the end thier intents are purely alrtuistic. But don't be suprised if the new office assitant is the Hypnotoad!
The Microsoft CEO bristled at the suggestion that Linux is gaining in popularity as a client operating system at the expense of Windows. "There's no appreciable amount of Linux on client systems anywhere in the world," he said.
how do you refute that? Maybe with that classic example of car companies looking out thier windows and seeing only american cars. Thus they think that there will only be american cars.
Just out of curiosity, do you think that microsoft actively pokes and prods linux for security holes? It would make sense wouldn't it?
Ballmer said that some governments have decided against using Linux after studying the costs involved. "You can sit here and read the drama stories and assume they are true. Paris said Linux was dramatically more expensive than Windows. In...Brazil, it's the same thing."
so france surrendered to microsoft, so what's new?
P.S. JK! I like the french! Thank you Fermat!
One exception is the city of Munich, Germany, which is planning a widespread Linux installation, Ballmer admitted. "Yes, we lost the city of Munich. But the fact that the same story gets told 65,000 times, and they are still diddling around to some degree...come on, where's the evidence?"...ok i'm done reading the article.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disk
:)
The information on a standard CD is encoded as a spiral track of pits moulded into the top of the polycarbonate layer
Sometimes it's true: the more things change, the more they stay the same. The preffered method for lengthy data storage still involves making an impression.
The oldest methods of "data storage" go back to the birth of written language. These involved either making impressions in the sand, or for more permanent storage making engravings into stone.
How small our stones have gotten, eh?
The number two, for instance, is a motion, and five is a clap of thunder.
I'm wondering, do you think that perhaps if we could present someone with this man's abilities an interface to some kind for a programming language that he could also achieve amazing things?
maybe vocal recognition or a motion-capture interface? He did say he is making his own language.
For instance, if he combines these abstract ideas in his mind in a mechanical way he is showing the ability to visualize details of und use complex concepts with amazing precision.
what is a chunk of code if not merely an amazingly complex concept?
I guess the question is, can one really play that game at all?
Tough question, I have an idea! Lets Debate It!
Hmm. OK. But trivia with Wikipedia seems pretty easy; since so much knowledge is available. Let's play something more like...counter-trivia. yeah, that sounds good.
;)
Here is the challenge: Name 10 common, generic, everyday things that are NOT in Wikipedia.
Here's one: "mouse click"
GO!
Where did you get the idea that chemicals can't be patented?
:P
Apparently I got the idea by not taking a chemistry course
An acid is a chemical.
Chemicals cannot be patented.
What's going on here?
What am I missing?
Digital is better.
In every respect.
I am an audiophile, and If you are to play vinyl through headphones to someone in the next room they will not be able to tell the difference between the original source and a digital recording of the vinyl playback. A digital recording can have a superset of all measurable audio components - spectrum and amplitude.
And as for the aliasing of digital recordings, when the sound hits the air it IS analog it becomes analog. When you use very high quality digital audio recordings you can capture and reproduce sounds that begin to (and for all intents do) border on the limits of they physics of sound itself.
Digital is superior in every way to analog. it is a myth that a person can hear the difference in a sufficciently high sample-rate recording.
Imagine an analog recording like a wooden box. You can hold it and carry it around. eventually it will begin to wear and tear.
Digital is like the knowledge of how to build that box. everytime you want to use the box you can build it from scratch instantaneously and you have a perfect, brand new box.
Sure, it's made out of wood from a different tree than your last box - but it is in better shape and the wood which you construct it out is of the same type and is stronger since it is unworn.
Furthermore, with the eventual advent of exponentially more sophisticated computation we will see the ability to record sound and reproduce it in such a way that it could be called seamless.
This will be accomplished not by a direct imprint on some meduim, but via an informational representation (analogous to digital) which will so dwarf the capabilities of the ancient idea of analog recordings that those who said analog is superior will be gaffawed in a similar fashion as we laugh at the gentleman below for his statements.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch [Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre] (circa 1911)
He was Supreme Commander of Allied forces, 1918
He held a similar attachment to the classical way of doing things and saw inherent superiority in his beliefs.
He was wrong for reasons blatently obvious from the perspective of the modern day.
Oh wow!
Hey, Bravo hitchhacker!
Even in your site's nascent stage I am very exited someone has gone and actually taken a swipe at this perplexing idea of creating a formal debate forum!
Furthermore, this initial alpha looks very promising!! to see someone actually creating a system designed specifically for debate is very exciting! If you search for other debate forums you can quickly see they are simply standard threaded forums which have no structure geared at all towards a formal debate.
I think I will create the opening argument on the debate of time travel into the past, since I've wiled away many-a nights discussing the implications and reality of such a thing.
why not have a moderation system like slashdot?
Require that 5 editors approve of a content addition/change before that modification is applied.
Track the editor's moderation record. Make negative modding count both against the negative moderator as well as the moderated.
This way only by getting 5 positive mods in x number of editor views can an addition get approved.
There certainly has to be a way to handle the vandalism and pettiness. slashdot's moderation system seems to do a great job of handling just that.
I mean, as an example, cruise slashdot at +5 and you get some good meat. drop to +4 and you've got your side of fries (or potatoes), +3 to eat your vegetables +2 for fiber +1 for garnish and 0&-1 for a dark alley to purge yourself in an anorexic fit.
Just cruise the first couple posts on this thread and take a gander at what allowing anyone to post anything brings...
I know there are problems with the slashdot moderation system - but as a whole it's a good system which tends to bring the most relevant and informative posts to the top of the heap. I would venture to say the slashdot moderation system is one of the most effective user-based moderation systems in existence.
Now, since I'm not familiar (and like to read the contributions of individuals), tell me; how closely does the slasdot moderation system currently relate to the wikipedia moderation system?
as an afterthought and to browse off topic (further?) since the inception of politics.slashdot.org I have contemplated the idea of something like a debate.slashdot.org
It's quite a tricky notion to convieve - how could you setup something akin to a formal debate in the form of a web forum? I mean, it seems all the lego pieces are here, robust moderation system, informed parties abounding with great skills at backing claims.
Would you somehow create opposing teams by using a vote system? how would you determine the representative for the side of the debate?
mark my words. With slashdot and wikipedia we have only begun to see the possibilities of massive contribution of free thought.
The q-tip thing, lol ;)
:) and then hold out your hand.
well, I certainly agree with you that the blind would not be "seeing" a picture - but my point is that a camera could translate images into sensations which a blind person could interpret and judge their surroundings by.
Try this - look around the room. Now close your eyes (not before you finish reading this though
Move your hand around and imagine that you can feel the room, feel the wall, the carpet, the chair. It's not a far stretch of the imagination.
This is what I am talking about, translating light into a tactile representation.
Of course, pressure is not a robust-enough sensation to translate images into a comprehensive tactile experience. Which is why I've prognosticated the eventual direct stimulation of nerves in order to communicate different feelings, like hard, soft, wet, dry, vibrating...so on and so forth.
The pallete of touch is great and varied.
Now I am not talking, either, of a "direct" translation of the image captured into a "picture" . Rather I would think that some sort of interpretation would be incorporated.
What would be most useful would be a way to communicate spacial information about the environment to a blind person - create some way with the tactile suit to inform them that there is a wall directly ahed and that they are about 10 feet from it.
Just imagine walking through your house in the middle of the night - how you hold your hands out in front of you scanning for objects.
Now imagine if you could feel out about 10 feet - 20 feet - 100 feet.
I would think this could work. Even though a blind person cannot see, or has never seen, an object they have felt that object. It's just a matter of allowing them to feel it when it is out of range of touch.
At any rate, it's complete speculation on my part, but I don't see any problems with enabling those without sight with this ability.
if you brush your hand over your keyboard or mousepad and close your eyes can you not construct an image?
...or not hard for that matter...anyhow they are "seeing" stuff in their heads. The eyes, at this point, are a distraction.
Do you really think such an ability is only the relm of the sighted?
Certainly they with no sight will have a different image, but will it be any less nuanced?
I think not.
With my wacko conjecture above I am merely imagining that you could take a camera and a graphical tactile glove and via stimulation could translate an image taken with a normal light-sensing camera into a tactile representation.
This device in the article is only pressure, but with time we will find how to interface better with nerves directly.
lastly I've seen no mention of blindness causing atrophy to the occipital lobe.
The only time blindness is directly realted to the visual cortex is when the cortex itself has either developed badly or has been damaged.
The occipital lobe is a great big region of very good nerves which you use whenever you "image"ine anything. It is not used soley to process external stimuli. It also processes internal stimuli.
I have little doubt that the blind lack imagination.
Ever seen anyone stare off into space when thinking really hard?
I've been "lost in thought" before to the point where my driving is forgotten!
¦ )
more than color this could allow a blind person virtual 360 degree vision.
;); Yes, this kind of research is great. It's immediate benefit is of course for the less fortunate, but it's real benifit is for us all. That's the best kind of science.
or anyone for that matter.
If you had a camera mounted on your back it could translate the image it captures into a type of virtual mosiac. It could do this via a body-wide graphical tactile display of high resolution.
then interpret/transfer that image to a "shirt" of this material - or a whole skinsuit.
So this way you could actually "feel" motion behind you. Perhaps you would even get very good at it too. It is not a far stretch to imagine that a person who has never seen could navigate in a chaotic environment just as well as someone with sight.
with the interpretation of the camera's image into "pixels" on your skin what's to keep the camera from zooming in if you wish it to? Imagine being able to feel a bird in a tree several hundred meters away.
A good place for graphical tactile response would be, of course, the hands but the lips are very touch sensitive.
And to that color point. If you were to transpose the camera's pixels into actual direct stimulation of the nerves in your skin then what is to keep you from having different sensations than pressure ?
Why not stimulate a stretching sensation? or I can imagine things that would best be represented with a soft sensation.....you know, puppies and kittens
Space Elevator and Carbon Nanotubes!
well, you are talking about scales (very large) and composites after all
¦)
The step cycle of ASIMO is 0.36 seconds with an airborne time of 0.05 seconds, which are equivalent to that of a person jogging.
It can already catch a sprinting slashdotter!?
the first thing I ever search for in a new engine is "google".
:/
I think it's a pretty good test of the honesty of the engine.
try it with this one
Old age dies from you!
A good use for my WebTv ;)
I played the beta and was very impressed.
:)
:)
The times I ran into lag it turned out to be client-side.
the netcode is very impressive. I think the whole design of the SWG enterprise was based around scalability. Early in the beta I was flying towards the tatooine space station and I estimated that I was rendering around 100 spacecraft flying about the station (i have a screenshot, need to corraborate that)- the netcode "view distance" was then scaled down, since this undoubtedly caused processor lag (and the netcode was likely maxxed out), nevertheless I was very impressed by that many clients being rendered in realtime.
The graphics engine is great, it's huge. it's expansive. eventually they will make an FPS with it (planetside seems to use a scaled-down version of this engine). I bought this game for the graphics engine - sometimes I just turn off the lights - turn off the games HUD and zoom in to first-person view, just to suspend my disbelief and pretend that I am actually standing in coronet on corellia.
The sounds are wonderful as well
I'm not a big RPGer, but I've had lots of fun playing this game. Now, I AM a big simmer - so JTL is just wonderful
All in all I think this game is great. Of course, that's an opinion and as we all know, it's pointless to argue tastes.
Ok right off the bat: does he actually mean, "soon there will be a $100 PC?" what with the trending down of file size due to compression and the deflation of adequate internet-usable pc hadware how could they not become $100?.. I mean....oh god it's all just FUD isn't it!?
:)
...ok i'm done reading the article.
let me acutally RTFriggin'A
There has to be...a $100 computer to go down-market in some of these countries. We have to engineer (PCs) to be lighter and cheaper,
sounds like the auto industry's way of stifling inovation to squeeze profits.
Ballmer said piracy of Microsoft's Windows and Office software in emerging markets has become a major concern for the software giant, especially among business users who can afford to pay for software.
i've always wondered. why would you want to pay for software over a programmer? Because It's cheaper, it's easier. But is it better?
Cheaper and Easier isn't always Better. (cheapest and really hard can be very good, I think you'll agree
"PCs are not selling to the lower end of the population in China and India. People buying machines there are relatively affluent. So...should the prices be lower? Not really. Until government and situational factors reduce piracy...those people...don't pay," Ballmer said.
Oh, they'll pay alright. one day, I'll make THEM PAY!!!! ahahahaha!!
Balmer didn't say that, I did.
But lower prices have become part of Microsoft's strategy for gaining market share in developing nations. In recent months, the software maker has announced plans to introduce low-cost "starter editions" of Windows XP into countries including India, Russia and Thailand. These versions will be bundled only with entry-level PCs and will not be available for retail sale.
are these guys friggin wizards of FUD or what!? Starter editions? What is redmond up to? I'm sure at the end thier intents are purely alrtuistic. But don't be suprised if the new office assitant is the Hypnotoad!
The Microsoft CEO bristled at the suggestion that Linux is gaining in popularity as a client operating system at the expense of Windows. "There's no appreciable amount of Linux on client systems anywhere in the world," he said.
how do you refute that? Maybe with that classic example of car companies looking out thier windows and seeing only american cars. Thus they think that there will only be american cars.
Just out of curiosity, do you think that microsoft actively pokes and prods linux for security holes? It would make sense wouldn't it?
Ballmer said that some governments have decided against using Linux after studying the costs involved. "You can sit here and read the drama stories and assume they are true. Paris said Linux was dramatically more expensive than Windows. In...Brazil, it's the same thing."
so france surrendered to microsoft, so what's new?
P.S. JK! I like the french! Thank you Fermat!
One exception is the city of Munich, Germany, which is planning a widespread Linux installation, Ballmer admitted. "Yes, we lost the city of Munich. But the fact that the same story gets told 65,000 times, and they are still diddling around to some degree...come on, where's the evidence?"
Google Browses you!
What!?
;)
I couldn't hear you! Did you say Sony is quitely opening up stores!?
OH! OK!
"We ain't goin' study war no more."
quite the opposite, I think. If we learn not history, well then are we not doomed to repeat it?
Ignorance is far from bliss - whomever came up with that saying was ignorant to the joy of knowledge, methinks.
to expain the first robolawyer's EULA?
Happy Birthday! I would sing the song, but... you guessed it http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/7/5/112441/6280
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/urz/images/abacus.gifg
n e/transistor.jpg
i lliac/Chip_Ant.jpg
http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/tubes3/600-nl-807.jp
http://www.ti.com/corp/graphics/press/image/on_li
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/resources/cisnews/v2i2/