...takes on a whole new meaning.
Psycho: I'll just fax this *actual* anthrax virus to the White House.
President: Hey, looky! A faxy thing! GAH WTF *dead*
...we're off to the tempest nebula to gather chronotons!
And there's me thinking this was some Farnsworthian device capable of stretching the very fabric of time itself!
*clenches fists and glares heavenward*
...threatens the minds of this generation? 6 billion people worldwide, 167 confirmed cases ever worldwide.
Whatever your statistical thinking, I doubt many logical, non-scare-hype-submitting people would call that a threat. It's a shame, though, that most people DO appear to feel threatened by this and fail to stop and think about the actual risks involved.
Recording 7 channels simultaneously for a week solid to a single drive has gotta take one seriously impressive bus. What are the data flow rates going to be for that? Something slightly ridiculous is my bet. And the hard drive write speed? Since it's unlikely to be a single terabyte-sized drive, I wonder how many drives are in this thing. One for each channel? And is it going to cost the earth? Probably...
You and I, it would appear not. The general, cellphone-buying market? Maybe.
It has seemed to me for a while that cellphones are really trying to be PDAs. But then if you want a device that does everything that a PDA can do..........why not just buy a freakin' PDA? And if you want a portable computer..........why not just buy a freakin' PDA?
I want a cellphone that I can walk around with, and that goes bring bring hello. Cellular. Phone. If I'd wanted a PDA, I'd have bought one.
However, kids and city boy executives with shiny suits, who are, let's face it, the main market sector buying new phones, seem to want the latest, greatest, smartest, flashiest, most function-packed portable computers. And if there's demand for it, then cellphone manufacturers will make it. It's just a shame as far as I'm concerned that I have to buy some bloated device full of functions I'll never use and will chew up battery power at the rate of a small fish-gutting farm.
I know, if I want something that just goes bring bring hello, I could just carry a Soviet brick around with me. Unfortunately the last time I tried my soviet brick on my network it seemed to fall off regularly. That and the fact that my pockets aren't made of high-tensile reinforced nanofibres to carry the extreme weight:)
You already have 12 places to find cheap things...
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...and you want MORE?
I know you want the best for your money, but that's just greedy...:)
...I don't know if it'll be enough. Getting people to go to libraries for whatever reason can only be seen as a good thing, but I wonder if the attraction of the computer and the internet is going to be enough.
Two libraries in my borough closed down in the last 6 months due to lack of interest and money. Much as I hate to say it, I'm not sure we can expect the internet and some PCs to pull people back to using conventional libraries.
Although Apple has taken a largely proprietary approach to iTunes, it made one major concession by making its software compatible with Microsoft's Windows operating system, effectively untying the iPod from the Mac in hopes of tapping into the much larger market for Windows PC users.
Which is a massive part of the reason that they have been so successful at totally owning all the competition. If they'd just released iTunes for the Mac, they'd be drowned out by those who supported Windows-based clients simply by force of numbers. A very clever move by Apple: coupled with a huge amount spent on advertising this is a sure-fire way to make money and stay on top.
...unfortunately, HDTV seems to still be a pipe dream. We receive a massive amount of digital content, but mostly due to technical inadequacy, the stations don't transmit in high definition.
I, for one, would love to be able to get HDTV here in the UK. I suppose the good side to this is that by the time we finally DO get HDTV, I might be able to afford a Tivo to record it with. Although, having said that, based on our past success at getting new technologies rolled out, we'll be in the year 2030 with holographic tv, or intra-brain chips that just beam the information straight to our visual cortex.
Wait a minute. That'd be pretty cool. Although, for those of us in the UK, HoloTV will be implemented by the time we're actually partaking in television. And by the time.... [iterate].
The Airborne Laser (ABL) is the first megawatt-class laser weapon system to be carried on a specially configured 747
How many 747s have had ballistic missiled fired at them? How many have been shot down by targeted missiles? Does that really pose a significant threat to our international travel?
I can't help but think that Lockheed-Martin, not being the most pacifistic company in the world, may have some ulterior motive for designing this - it can be mounted on a 747, sure, but isn't this far more likely to be implemented on military aircraft, where it will surely have far more worthwhile uses? And if that is the case, why not state its true purpose?
Call me paranoid, but I always tend to assume the worst.
That I can't find anyone selling a flux capacitor. 1.21 Jiggawatts? Where the hell am I going to get that kind of power?
I mean sure, that lightning rod thing works, but it gets so damn messy every time, PFFFZZZZTT, let alone the scratches on the paintwork and the need to travel during a storm. Pain in the ass, that.
Mind you, they might throw in a few plutonium cores, then I'll be hapy. Although let's face it, the damn Libyans are a problem too. Always chasing me with freaking rocket launchers.
In hindsight, it's probably more trouble than it's worth.
Memory training is the one thing I left out, actually. It does seem you can improve your memory skills, although I would say that that doesn't necessarily mean that you are growing new neurons. That'd be a snap assumption - it may just be that you are somehow honing the action of existing neurons. Glials could play a major part in this, routing neuronal impulses via shorter routes or something. As you say, and I agree - we're finding more out every day - we'll have to wait and see...I'm a geneticist, not a brain researcher;)
I'm studying for a degree in genetics at the moment and I was interested to hear your question.
Simply injecting stem cells there wouldn't really do a lot.Whilst stem cells are what is known as 'pluri/toti-potent' - that is, they can give rise, under different conditions, to many (or in some cases all) types of bodily cell, (e.g. liver, spleen, pancreatic, brain neuron etc etc.), they need the correct stimulus, in the form of the correct chemical environment, to make them differentiate into that sort of cell.
Increasing the size of that area would probably make some sort of difference to the STWM, so we'd need to approach it in a way that caused us to end up with not only more cells there, but more cells that actually perform the correct function there, and that tie in with the existing lot of cells. No use having a ball of cells of the right type there that just grow into a new mass. In fact, that's what we call a tumour. Never good in the middle of your head:P
Needless to say, that's not as easy as it sounds. You'd need to get some stem cells, and discover what is the exact stimulus that makes them, in the developing embryo, mature into 'STWM cells'. Since I think we can likely assume that your 'brain cache' doesn't grow in size throughout life (or you'd get progressively more logical and have an improved short term memory as you got older), we can also probably guess that this area is fully developed at birth and therefore the only place the correct environment for this differentiation would be likely to occur is in the developing foetus.
Which means that you'd have to take some developing foetuses apart to try and localise the correct chemical environment. And then you get into legal/ethical fluff. Currently, there's no way you'd get permission to take foetuses to bits to improve some adult's short term memory. Maybe in times to come, we'll be able to co-localise these factors and chemical environment electronically, or with some sort of prenatal scan. Until then, I'd think that stem cell therapy is unlikely to work correctly.
Look. All someone's done is taken the front of a Stormtrooper mask, cut some chunks out of the sides, painted it yellow, and stuck in an incredibly photoshopped woman.
I mean, her arms appear to be coming from her breasts, if her head's attached to her body like that then she's got incredibly bad scoliosis, and the bottom half of her bikini appears to have been drawn onto her body by an epileptic kid using a pre-alpha version of MS Paint whilst in the middle of a tonic seizure.
Her face also appears to be, for reasons unknown, forced against the front of the plexiglass screen with some incredible force.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a _PIN_, dammit. The N stands for Number.
...takes on a whole new meaning. Psycho: I'll just fax this *actual* anthrax virus to the White House. President: Hey, looky! A faxy thing! GAH WTF *dead*
...we're off to the tempest nebula to gather chronotons! And there's me thinking this was some Farnsworthian device capable of stretching the very fabric of time itself! *clenches fists and glares heavenward*
I read this as 'most blank websites'.
Sounds about right...:)
...threatens the minds of this generation? 6 billion people worldwide, 167 confirmed cases ever worldwide. Whatever your statistical thinking, I doubt many logical, non-scare-hype-submitting people would call that a threat. It's a shame, though, that most people DO appear to feel threatened by this and fail to stop and think about the actual risks involved.
...Bush 3.0. I was wondering why the last two incarnations of your US president were so god-awful. ;)
Recording 7 channels simultaneously for a week solid to a single drive has gotta take one seriously impressive bus. What are the data flow rates going to be for that? Something slightly ridiculous is my bet. And the hard drive write speed? Since it's unlikely to be a single terabyte-sized drive, I wonder how many drives are in this thing. One for each channel? And is it going to cost the earth? Probably...
You['re] (must be) joking, right?
:)
That's what Kyle Katarn said. About a million and four times in Jedi Academy. And he's a freaking Jedi. So he must be right.
It's not gonna sell. The Jedi have spoken
It depends on who you define as 'we'.
:)
You and I, it would appear not. The general, cellphone-buying market? Maybe.
It has seemed to me for a while that cellphones are really trying to be PDAs. But then if you want a device that does everything that a PDA can do..........why not just buy a freakin' PDA? And if you want a portable computer..........why not just buy a freakin' PDA?
I want a cellphone that I can walk around with, and that goes bring bring hello. Cellular. Phone. If I'd wanted a PDA, I'd have bought one.
However, kids and city boy executives with shiny suits, who are, let's face it, the main market sector buying new phones, seem to want the latest, greatest, smartest, flashiest, most function-packed portable computers. And if there's demand for it, then cellphone manufacturers will make it. It's just a shame as far as I'm concerned that I have to buy some bloated device full of functions I'll never use and will chew up battery power at the rate of a small fish-gutting farm.
I know, if I want something that just goes bring bring hello, I could just carry a Soviet brick around with me. Unfortunately the last time I tried my soviet brick on my network it seemed to fall off regularly. That and the fact that my pockets aren't made of high-tensile reinforced nanofibres to carry the extreme weight
...and you want MORE? I know you want the best for your money, but that's just greedy... :)
...I don't know if it'll be enough. Getting people to go to libraries for whatever reason can only be seen as a good thing, but I wonder if the attraction of the computer and the internet is going to be enough.
Two libraries in my borough closed down in the last 6 months due to lack of interest and money. Much as I hate to say it, I'm not sure we can expect the internet and some PCs to pull people back to using conventional libraries.
Although Apple has taken a largely proprietary approach to iTunes, it made one major concession by making its software compatible with Microsoft's Windows operating system, effectively untying the iPod from the Mac in hopes of tapping into the much larger market for Windows PC users.
Which is a massive part of the reason that they have been so successful at totally owning all the competition. If they'd just released iTunes for the Mac, they'd be drowned out by those who supported Windows-based clients simply by force of numbers. A very clever move by Apple: coupled with a huge amount spent on advertising this is a sure-fire way to make money and stay on top.
Remember Bubba Smith? He'd have to love this..seriously, the guy could impersonate *anything* in Police Academy.
SHOPOWNER: 'Please verify your card, Mr. Smith."
HIGHTOWER: *Squawk*
SHOPOWNER: 'Thanks'
Cha-ching!
I hate to be picky, I really do... ...but wasn't it 'passport'?
...unfortunately, HDTV seems to still be a pipe dream. We receive a massive amount of digital content, but mostly due to technical inadequacy, the stations don't transmit in high definition.
I, for one, would love to be able to get HDTV here in the UK. I suppose the good side to this is that by the time we finally DO get HDTV, I might be able to afford a Tivo to record it with. Although, having said that, based on our past success at getting new technologies rolled out, we'll be in the year 2030 with holographic tv, or intra-brain chips that just beam the information straight to our visual cortex.
Wait a minute. That'd be pretty cool. Although, for those of us in the UK, HoloTV will be implemented by the time we're actually partaking in television. And by the time.... [iterate].
It does make you wonder...
The Airborne Laser (ABL) is the first megawatt-class laser weapon system to be carried on a specially configured 747
How many 747s have had ballistic missiled fired at them? How many have been shot down by targeted missiles? Does that really pose a significant threat to our international travel?
I can't help but think that Lockheed-Martin, not being the most pacifistic company in the world, may have some ulterior motive for designing this - it can be mounted on a 747, sure, but isn't this far more likely to be implemented on military aircraft, where it will surely have far more worthwhile uses? And if that is the case, why not state its true purpose?
Call me paranoid, but I always tend to assume the worst.
It says it's automatic transmission, but I distinctly remember in BTTF, Marty changes gears on the run up to the lightning wire.
That I can't find anyone selling a flux capacitor. 1.21 Jiggawatts? Where the hell am I going to get that kind of power? I mean sure, that lightning rod thing works, but it gets so damn messy every time, PFFFZZZZTT, let alone the scratches on the paintwork and the need to travel during a storm. Pain in the ass, that. Mind you, they might throw in a few plutonium cores, then I'll be hapy. Although let's face it, the damn Libyans are a problem too. Always chasing me with freaking rocket launchers. In hindsight, it's probably more trouble than it's worth.
Memory training is the one thing I left out, actually. It does seem you can improve your memory skills, although I would say that that doesn't necessarily mean that you are growing new neurons. That'd be a snap assumption - it may just be that you are somehow honing the action of existing neurons. Glials could play a major part in this, routing neuronal impulses via shorter routes or something. As you say, and I agree - we're finding more out every day - we'll have to wait and see...I'm a geneticist, not a brain researcher ;)
I'm studying for a degree in genetics at the moment and I was interested to hear your question.
.Whilst stem cells are what is known as 'pluri/toti-potent' - that is, they can give rise, under different conditions, to many (or in some cases all) types of bodily cell, (e.g. liver, spleen, pancreatic, brain neuron etc etc.), they need the correct stimulus, in the form of the correct chemical environment, to make them differentiate into that sort of cell.
:P
Simply injecting stem cells there wouldn't really do a lot
Increasing the size of that area would probably make some sort of difference to the STWM, so we'd need to approach it in a way that caused us to end up with not only more cells there, but more cells that actually perform the correct function there, and that tie in with the existing lot of cells. No use having a ball of cells of the right type there that just grow into a new mass. In fact, that's what we call a tumour. Never good in the middle of your head
Needless to say, that's not as easy as it sounds. You'd need to get some stem cells, and discover what is the exact stimulus that makes them, in the developing embryo, mature into 'STWM cells'. Since I think we can likely assume that your 'brain cache' doesn't grow in size throughout life (or you'd get progressively more logical and have an improved short term memory as you got older), we can also probably guess that this area is fully developed at birth and therefore the only place the correct environment for this differentiation would be likely to occur is in the developing foetus.
Which means that you'd have to take some developing foetuses apart to try and localise the correct chemical environment. And then you get into legal/ethical fluff. Currently, there's no way you'd get permission to take foetuses to bits to improve some adult's short term memory. Maybe in times to come, we'll be able to co-localise these factors and chemical environment electronically, or with some sort of prenatal scan. Until then, I'd think that stem cell therapy is unlikely to work correctly.
Look. All someone's done is taken the front of a Stormtrooper mask, cut some chunks out of the sides, painted it yellow, and stuck in an incredibly photoshopped woman.
:)
I mean, her arms appear to be coming from her breasts, if her head's attached to her body like that then she's got incredibly bad scoliosis, and the bottom half of her bikini appears to have been drawn onto her body by an epileptic kid using a pre-alpha version of MS Paint whilst in the middle of a tonic seizure.
Her face also appears to be, for reasons unknown, forced against the front of the plexiglass screen with some incredible force.
Clearly some huge conspiracy
Cloudbase. The guy even looks like something you might see in Captain Scarlet. :P
Train my replacement?
Do I look like a Sith lord?
Here's a close-up look at the ship's cutting-edge IT ...followed by a picture of a strange-looking bald man. At first I thought he was the IT.
Some impressive IT, that, if that's the state of the AI / cyborgs on board.
Yeah, and spend $999.50 on kevlar and high-tension steel, $0.50 on saran-wrap, and build your own shell and waterproofing. Save 200 dollars EASY!