Well, they say although it's cheaper than kevlar, it's one tenth as strong. A cop might be up for wearing ten nanoyarn sweaters though if they're comfy enough.
We are infinitesimal specks on an infinitesimal dot amongst the infinite expanse of our universe. How ever did Zaphod Beeblebrox cope with such a horrific concept?
No thanks. My high school english classes did a good job of making sure that I'd never enjoy classic works.
You can go to a book store and get a Shakespeare play as a "Shakespeare Made Easy" book.. has modern text alongside the Shakespeare text, which you can read before every paragraph.
To learn to enjoy Shakespeare, pick up a copy of "The Tempest" and read the part when Caliban gets drunk and starts worshipping a butler. It had me laughing out loud.
Just so I don't stay off-topic, I'm betting the Tempest ends up like first one big group and one little group.. and the big group becomes one big group and one small group, with Ferdinand joining the little group. Then they all become one big group at the end. Simple enough:)
These spammers are being sued for damages to the ISPs? Why can't they include their customers in the law suit? We're the ones supporting every dollar they earn, and we suffer plenty because of spammers. The ISPs are footing the bill for the lawsuit, sure, but it'd be nice if we got a coupon or something.
getting payment from legal users that presume compensation for when the devices are used for piracy
This tax is fair, because it is applied to the populace of a country for not producing someone smart enough to invent a technologies sophisticated enough to protect their businesses' music media as necessary. The government of France is simply taxing its populace for lagging behind the Darwin curve.
Got another link? That HTML version yer pointing to only goes up to page 49 out of well over 100 pages. I guess google's automatic PDF to HTML conversion caps itself at 49 pages.
You must buy ink for one (at $970 a cart, lasts for 1 week)
Umm, the article says there are no consumables, including ink. Yer either a troll, or only commenting about previously existing CD printers (I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say the latter). Anyway, what I think would be interesting to investigate is the same thing being applied to paper. It'd interesting to investigate being able to print black n' white on specially treated paper without using ink or toner.
The more and more I read about this, I'm quite impressed, but doesn't it seem really easy to throw the damn 70 pound backpack in my car trunk and drive 15 times faster?:)
Also, if that thing runs out of fuel, not only are you carrying 70 pounds, but you're also carrying 100 pounds of exoskeleton. If it merely malfunctions, you have to carry the fuel too!...Unless you want to explain to your commander why the Army should buy you a new one. Maybe they should add a good set of retractable wheels, so you can carry it around like luggage in an airport.
ROTK winning best adapted screenplay is a joke! But then I can say the same for most of the Oscars. I'll cede best direction, best score, best fireworks, etc, to ROTK, but do any of you realize how many people are writing how many screenplays? Just because people go "Oooooooooo" and "Aaaaaaaahhhhhh" at the pretty ROTK doesn't mean it HAPPENS to have the best writing in the world too. It was mediocre writing at best, with decent acting and very good presentation. American Splendor or even City of God were MUCH more deserving for the best adapted screenplay award.
Just to put things into perspective, don't you think it's quite the coincidence that Francis Coppola's (director of Godfather) precious little daughter happens to have written the best original screenplay? Oh, what that little monarchial actors' clique does to make little Sofia happy.
Therefore, the whole essense and mystery of the brain is how to connect 10^10 shitty elements into a great learnable machine.
I wonder if anyone here knows how research/progress of spontaneous intelligence is going. Theorists suggested that when you replicate the behavior of a neuron and let them talk with 9,999,999,999 copies of that virtual entity, then we'd instantly see a computer that can think and learn just like a human. Is a neuron that complex? What is the hold up? I always suspected that this idea was a massive oversimplication of the issue at hand.
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For instance, we have a boner pill (Viagra) and a baldness pill (Rogaine I think), but no AIDS pill (at least that I'm aware of).
Just as a side note:
Rogaine's an ointment, and it does practically nothing. AIDS victims could take AZT. Not a cure by any means, but certainly does a whole lot more than Rogaine.
Remember the $250,000 bounty M$ put out on I think more than one virus/worm writer? They've pretty much declared war lately. This comment is no doubt just trying to play on the common belief that eventually every virus author has to brag to someone, because they do it for social status. I'm not saying that it's correct or mistaken, but they probably expect someone to come forward and say, "HEY! I wrote A, B, and C to exploit your silly OS, X number of days before patches were available for any of them!" Just sign your name to that and you've got yerself a convicted cracker. Very clever, masking it like a marketing tactic, but we know the real truth.
I don't follow most if not all of these recommendations, but I've at least thought about them at one point. speedread - If you pronounce words in your mind as you read them, you are forced to read much slower than if you learn to read without that habit. Supposedly one can read and fully comprehend a few thousand of words a minute.
abridged books - You claim to read unabridged books, but if you're wanting to absorb more, why not read the versions that get to the point quicker?
read/listen/watch only shows/stories/articles recommended by trusted sources - People you know recommend that you should read/watch/listen to certain things. Some turn out to be a waste time, but some turn out to be truly enjoyable. Only listen to those who have usually recommended the latter.
ask for paraphrasings of stories - Maybe you don't need to read/watch a story. Maybe it's not worth your time/interest to go through every word. Just get someone who's good at summarizing to explain the story to you within 2 minutes. Maybe that will be entertaining enough.
fast forward - If you liked Alvin and the Chipmunks, then try this. A friend of mine watches all of his anime at double speed. I think he's nuts, but it works for him.
switch to cell phone-only - Here's something I follow. If you only have a cell-phone, you have an excuse to hang up on people who talk too much, "Sorry, using up too much airtime. Gotta go."
pay someone else to do housework - A maid can clean your house for a reasonable fee once a week. Please don't hire an illegal alien though.
carpool - You might have to drive to work and do your Otis listening routine sometimes, but othertimes, you can sit in the back while you speedread. This works best if you can ignore your talkative buddies and maintain focus.
drink more coffee - Just make sure it doesn't interfere with the sleep you need. Most people need enough sleep to maintain most of their ability to pay attention to what they read/listen to/watch.
work less hours - depends on your priorities in life. If you're an independent contractor who's being paid a lot, maybe you can take off a day every other week to get more reading in.
become financially independent - or maybe you don't have to work at all after you've saved your money enough or started a business that runs itself.
raise your slashdot filter - Most of the posts here are crap. You shouldn't bother with anything less than a rating of 4 unless you're moderating.
A lot of times, text would be masked by making it a color that blends into the background graphic. A plain background color is intelligible by an HTML parser, but you would need to do at least some form of color histogram/pattern recognition on the background graphic to determine whether or not it is likely to mask keywords. Honestly, I think it's a nice idea, and it's not like every page has to be scanned. It's a way of filtering out a few relatively obvious bad apples, or at least some rather irritatingly hard to read web sites.
Movie execs also are worried about lost revenue from DVD sales and rentals. "We absolutely need downstream revenue to survive," said Ken Jacobsen, senior VP and director of worldwide anti-piracy operations for the MPAA, noting that only four of 10 movies earn enough at the box office to recoup the average of $89 million spent on producing and marketing a film.
Here's an idea. Maybe the movie industry would recoup their costs if they produced BETTER movies! With all the Hollywood crap I see flying across the tarnished silver screen, I think it's about time to let the resourceful, creative lower budget movie makers have a chance, and let the high budget producers relearn how to make a good movie.
Did you see the other thing Landa was selling? I'm sure some fool would pay ten million dollars for this for advertising maybe, but I bet it'd make a nice target for the F18.
Couldn't you just disable the spam filter? I know Yahoo does this, and believe me, I ain't touching AOL, but I have to believe this feature is available.
I'll say pretty much what another responder already said. Auditable votes pretty much circumvent the problems spawned from abuse possible with proprietary voting software. What I really like the technical community getting more involved with voting software, and open-source might inspire this more-so, is the possibility that one day we may no longer use this antiquated electoral vote system. To be more explicit at the risk of being a bit off-topic, every vote should count directly. If I'm in a Democratic state, I should be able to vote Republican and my vote not be ignored by my state's electoral votes. With the general community getting involved with the software, the system may be more prone to mutations over time, especially as the technical, more computer literate community starts to fill seats in the government.
Pardon my rambling:)
We can't even get to where most species *are* yet.
Where can't we get to? We managed to explore Challenger Deep, which supposedly is 7+ miles below sea level. Pretty much any place on the earth that an animal/organism can live in, we can get to, except maybe the microscopic organisms.. I wonder how detailed this search will be?
And while I agree that taxonomy is an important part of biological science, cataloging life isn't the *point* of taxonomy. It might be rather more to the point to *preserve* these species, or at least their DNA (male and female, and put them, into the ark. Riiiiight)
As far as cataloguing the species, identifying the species is a first necessary step to actually knowing whether or not it is endangered. 1.7 million species is a lot to search through already, and with a up n' running DNA database, they could just pluck a fin and see if it matches up.. if it's a common species, then let it go on its way. There are a lot of species out there, but the more we save, the merrier... this seems obvious, no?
I don't know.. I'd think a well prepared army might carry food instead, so the soldiers don't just get their nutrition, but oh yeah, they avoid starving to death too. If they really need this vitamin/nutrition replenishment, why not just crack open a jar of Flintstone chewables? A grape dino tastes damn good!
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Maybe they can develop nerves strong enough to let me survive my mother asking for computer help.
Well, they say although it's cheaper than kevlar, it's one tenth as strong. A cop might be up for wearing ten nanoyarn sweaters though if they're comfy enough.
We are infinitesimal specks on an infinitesimal dot amongst the infinite expanse of our universe. How ever did Zaphod Beeblebrox cope with such a horrific concept?
If you watch the sample video on the web site, you'd see the relationships take the shape of a woman's bra. Shakespeare was a pervert!
No thanks. My high school english classes did a good job of making sure that I'd never enjoy classic works.
You can go to a book store and get a Shakespeare play as a "Shakespeare Made Easy" book.. has modern text alongside the Shakespeare text, which you can read before every paragraph.
To learn to enjoy Shakespeare, pick up a copy of "The Tempest" and read the part when Caliban gets drunk and starts worshipping a butler. It had me laughing out loud.
Just so I don't stay off-topic, I'm betting the Tempest ends up like first one big group and one little group.. and the big group becomes one big group and one small group, with Ferdinand joining the little group. Then they all become one big group at the end. Simple enough :)
These spammers are being sued for damages to the ISPs? Why can't they include their customers in the law suit? We're the ones supporting every dollar they earn, and we suffer plenty because of spammers. The ISPs are footing the bill for the lawsuit, sure, but it'd be nice if we got a coupon or something.
getting payment from legal users that presume compensation for when the devices are used for piracy
This tax is fair, because it is applied to the populace of a country for not producing someone smart enough to invent a technologies sophisticated enough to protect their businesses' music media as necessary. The government of France is simply taxing its populace for lagging behind the Darwin curve. ...for those that don't wanna read the PDF:
Got another link? That HTML version yer pointing to only goes up to page 49 out of well over 100 pages. I guess google's automatic PDF to HTML conversion caps itself at 49 pages.You must buy ink for one (at $970 a cart, lasts for 1 week)
Umm, the article says there are no consumables, including ink. Yer either a troll, or only commenting about previously existing CD printers (I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say the latter). Anyway, what I think would be interesting to investigate is the same thing being applied to paper. It'd interesting to investigate being able to print black n' white on specially treated paper without using ink or toner.
I actually made the cookies based on one of those email hoax recipes. They honestly weren't that good.
The more and more I read about this, I'm quite impressed, but doesn't it seem really easy to throw the damn 70 pound backpack in my car trunk and drive 15 times faster? :)
Also, if that thing runs out of fuel, not only are you carrying 70 pounds, but you're also carrying 100 pounds of exoskeleton. If it merely malfunctions, you have to carry the fuel too! ...Unless you want to explain to your commander why the Army should buy you a new one. Maybe they should add a good set of retractable wheels, so you can carry it around like luggage in an airport.
ROTK winning best adapted screenplay is a joke! But then I can say the same for most of the Oscars. I'll cede best direction, best score, best fireworks, etc, to ROTK, but do any of you realize how many people are writing how many screenplays? Just because people go "Oooooooooo" and "Aaaaaaaahhhhhh" at the pretty ROTK doesn't mean it HAPPENS to have the best writing in the world too. It was mediocre writing at best, with decent acting and very good presentation. American Splendor or even City of God were MUCH more deserving for the best adapted screenplay award.
Just to put things into perspective, don't you think it's quite the coincidence that Francis Coppola's (director of Godfather) precious little daughter happens to have written the best original screenplay? Oh, what that little monarchial actors' clique does to make little Sofia happy.
Therefore, the whole essense and mystery of the brain is how to connect 10^10 shitty elements into a great learnable machine.
I wonder if anyone here knows how research/progress of spontaneous intelligence is going. Theorists suggested that when you replicate the behavior of a neuron and let them talk with 9,999,999,999 copies of that virtual entity, then we'd instantly see a computer that can think and learn just like a human. Is a neuron that complex? What is the hold up? I always suspected that this idea was a massive oversimplication of the issue at hand.
Monsters, John! Monsters... from the id!
First you need something else!
For instance, we have a boner pill (Viagra) and a baldness pill (Rogaine I think), but no AIDS pill (at least that I'm aware of).
Just as a side note:
Rogaine's an ointment, and it does practically nothing. AIDS victims could take AZT. Not a cure by any means, but certainly does a whole lot more than Rogaine.
Remember the $250,000 bounty M$ put out on I think more than one virus/worm writer? They've pretty much declared war lately. This comment is no doubt just trying to play on the common belief that eventually every virus author has to brag to someone, because they do it for social status. I'm not saying that it's correct or mistaken, but they probably expect someone to come forward and say, "HEY! I wrote A, B, and C to exploit your silly OS, X number of days before patches were available for any of them!" Just sign your name to that and you've got yerself a convicted cracker. Very clever, masking it like a marketing tactic, but we know the real truth.
I don't follow most if not all of these recommendations, but I've at least thought about them at one point.
speedread - If you pronounce words in your mind as you read them, you are forced to read much slower than if you learn to read without that habit. Supposedly one can read and fully comprehend a few thousand of words a minute.
abridged books - You claim to read unabridged books, but if you're wanting to absorb more, why not read the versions that get to the point quicker?
read/listen/watch only shows/stories/articles recommended by trusted sources - People you know recommend that you should read/watch/listen to certain things. Some turn out to be a waste time, but some turn out to be truly enjoyable. Only listen to those who have usually recommended the latter.
ask for paraphrasings of stories - Maybe you don't need to read/watch a story. Maybe it's not worth your time/interest to go through every word. Just get someone who's good at summarizing to explain the story to you within 2 minutes. Maybe that will be entertaining enough.
fast forward - If you liked Alvin and the Chipmunks, then try this. A friend of mine watches all of his anime at double speed. I think he's nuts, but it works for him.
switch to cell phone-only - Here's something I follow. If you only have a cell-phone, you have an excuse to hang up on people who talk too much, "Sorry, using up too much airtime. Gotta go."
pay someone else to do housework - A maid can clean your house for a reasonable fee once a week. Please don't hire an illegal alien though.
carpool - You might have to drive to work and do your Otis listening routine sometimes, but othertimes, you can sit in the back while you speedread. This works best if you can ignore your talkative buddies and maintain focus.
drink more coffee - Just make sure it doesn't interfere with the sleep you need. Most people need enough sleep to maintain most of their ability to pay attention to what they read/listen to/watch.
work less hours - depends on your priorities in life. If you're an independent contractor who's being paid a lot, maybe you can take off a day every other week to get more reading in.
become financially independent - or maybe you don't have to work at all after you've saved your money enough or started a business that runs itself.
raise your slashdot filter - Most of the posts here are crap. You shouldn't bother with anything less than a rating of 4 unless you're moderating.
A lot of times, text would be masked by making it a color that blends into the background graphic. A plain background color is intelligible by an HTML parser, but you would need to do at least some form of color histogram/pattern recognition on the background graphic to determine whether or not it is likely to mask keywords. Honestly, I think it's a nice idea, and it's not like every page has to be scanned. It's a way of filtering out a few relatively obvious bad apples, or at least some rather irritatingly hard to read web sites.
I tried to pay for the license, but the web site got slashdotted.
Is that the equivalent of shoplifting because the line's too long?
Oh well, fine by me.
Did you see the other thing Landa was selling? I'm sure some fool would pay ten million dollars for this for advertising maybe, but I bet it'd make a nice target for the F18.
Couldn't you just disable the spam filter? I know Yahoo does this, and believe me, I ain't touching AOL, but I have to believe this feature is available.
I'll say pretty much what another responder already said. Auditable votes pretty much circumvent the problems spawned from abuse possible with proprietary voting software. What I really like the technical community getting more involved with voting software, and open-source might inspire this more-so, is the possibility that one day we may no longer use this antiquated electoral vote system. To be more explicit at the risk of being a bit off-topic, every vote should count directly. If I'm in a Democratic state, I should be able to vote Republican and my vote not be ignored by my state's electoral votes. With the general community getting involved with the software, the system may be more prone to mutations over time, especially as the technical, more computer literate community starts to fill seats in the government. Pardon my rambling :)
We can't even get to where most species *are* yet.
Where can't we get to? We managed to explore Challenger Deep, which supposedly is 7+ miles below sea level. Pretty much any place on the earth that an animal/organism can live in, we can get to, except maybe the microscopic organisms.. I wonder how detailed this search will be?
And while I agree that taxonomy is an important part of biological science, cataloging life isn't the *point* of taxonomy. It might be rather more to the point to *preserve* these species, or at least their DNA (male and female, and put them, into the ark. Riiiiight)
As far as cataloguing the species, identifying the species is a first necessary step to actually knowing whether or not it is endangered. 1.7 million species is a lot to search through already, and with a up n' running DNA database, they could just pluck a fin and see if it matches up.. if it's a common species, then let it go on its way. There are a lot of species out there, but the more we save, the merrier... this seems obvious, no?
I don't know.. I'd think a well prepared army might carry food instead, so the soldiers don't just get their nutrition, but oh yeah, they avoid starving to death too. If they really need this vitamin/nutrition replenishment, why not just crack open a jar of Flintstone chewables? A grape dino tastes damn good!