hahahaha! Open your mind you dirty atheist and let the dead people speak to you!
When I was a kid I used to have an old tv with tuning knobs... I found that if I had it on one of the high UHF channels and played with the fine tune knobs I could hear people talking, though I could never quite make out what they were saying. Freaked me out. In hindsight I think I was picking up cordless telephones.
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Indeed people are just animals, but maybe our awesome destructive power is counter balanced by our power to create things. If you take the "however the ecosystem is, it is" stance then our deciding to rebuild it is just as natural. I didn't mean to imply that humanity is not a part of nature.
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I think the idea is that humanity has killed off these species, so we are just righting our wrong.
As an English only speaker whose been to Japan, it's amazing how far you can get with no, yes and hand gestures. To make things even easier be able to ask for the bathroom in Japanese (mimeing bathroom antics is a little gross) and of course know how to apologize profusely in Japanese for when you do offend someone or you just fail to communicate with them entirely.
Imagine your lady friend stops by and you get to talking about that great old movie that she never saw. You couldn't watch it right then if you needed to spend 2 days looking for it and 3 days downloading it. It could mean the difference between happily married and single forever!
The trick is to get them to see a movie they are only half interested in, so they turn some interest onto you. Otherwise you both will have a good time laughing at the movie, but you might part without so much as a little cuddling. Then it's really hard to tell if it was just two people having a good time, or a date!
I think it's more that employers want to buy new parts, with warrantys instead of spending time cobbling together old PII's and experiencing downtime when old components inevitably fail. Besides, any business that's been around more than a couple years is used to buying $3000 workstations, getting a Dell for $800 a seat is like nothing to them. Additionally, it improves morale, the employees feel better if they think thier employer values them enough to buy them up to date equipment.
It it were possible to buy slower, new, warrantied equipment at an appropriately reduced price, I'm sure companies would go for it.
At the supermarket near my home in Wisconsin, USA called Pick N' Save, the card has a bar code on it that they put through the scanner at checkout, then the cash register automatically gives you all the in store special prices--without the card you pay full price on everything.
They advertise the lower price right in the store, occasionally they have signs in the store that say something like: "buy $50 worth of groceries, get this loaf of bread free". During Thanksgiving, you get a discounted price on turkey based on how much you've spent at thier store during the year--The more you spend the cheaper the turkey is per pound.
Well, I guess I have to be more obvious too. Unless learning Zen means you are magical, your eyes can only be in one place at one time. If you happen to be looking at some pretty display in the dashboard during a second that a kid or an animal runs out, you will kill whatever is in front of you.
Oh, and I consider it bragging when people swing around degrees or accomplishments, but then I've not spent most of my life examining my consiousness or learning how to use my body to inflict harm: I've been reading a dictionary.
You seem to imply that you would love this stuff in your car, because you have such superior driving ability and your apparently larger brain than the "simpletons".
My not understanding why anyone is proud of being able to do something as mundane as driving not withstanding, it's a fact that it takes less than a few seconds for a car to go careening off the road.
In Wisconsin, if you leave the road you'll hit a tree. If you are driving through Montana and leave the road there's nothing to hit--so I might agree with you that I'd use such features there. However the "open range" and the possibility of hitting a cow might deter me even there.
Make this look like a spider and yeah, this would have huge ick factor for most of the public. Maybe if it looked like a cute little (very, very miniature) puppy.
I think it's a great idea, esp. if while trimming public hair it can detect STD's like herpes or genital warts or whatever. Honestly, how often do you give your genitals a through examination? Every day? Oh... I didn't realize...
I suppose after the six hours waiting in the airport and getting molested by security each way it might still be possible to make the roundtrip in a day.
An African American friend of mine was trying to prove a point by saying that if you added up all the people who were "minority" status, they would make up the majority of people in the USA (IE, whites comprise less than 50%). I hopped on census.gov and showed him that the population is ~70% white (I don't remember exactly).
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hahahaha! Open your mind you dirty atheist and let the dead people speak to you!
When I was a kid I used to have an old tv with tuning knobs... I found that if I had it on one of the high UHF channels and played with the fine tune knobs I could hear people talking, though I could never quite make out what they were saying. Freaked me out. In hindsight I think I was picking up cordless telephones.
Indeed people are just animals, but maybe our awesome destructive power is counter balanced by our power to create things. If you take the "however the ecosystem is, it is" stance then our deciding to rebuild it is just as natural. I didn't mean to imply that humanity is not a part of nature.
I think the idea is that humanity has killed off these species, so we are just righting our wrong.
Indeed! Afterlife is the carrot they dangle to get you to accept religion.
As an English only speaker whose been to Japan, it's amazing how far you can get with no, yes and hand gestures. To make things even easier be able to ask for the bathroom in Japanese (mimeing bathroom antics is a little gross) and of course know how to apologize profusely in Japanese for when you do offend someone or you just fail to communicate with them entirely.
Did you look at the link? Prototype 1 already looks like a killing machine.
The trick is to get them to see a movie they are only half interested in, so they turn some interest onto you. Otherwise you both will have a good time laughing at the movie, but you might part without so much as a little cuddling. Then it's really hard to tell if it was just two people having a good time, or a date!
I think it's more that employers want to buy new parts, with warrantys instead of spending time cobbling together old PII's and experiencing downtime when old components inevitably fail. Besides, any business that's been around more than a couple years is used to buying $3000 workstations, getting a Dell for $800 a seat is like nothing to them. Additionally, it improves morale, the employees feel better if they think thier employer values them enough to buy them up to date equipment.
It it were possible to buy slower, new, warrantied equipment at an appropriately reduced price, I'm sure companies would go for it.
Uh, do you mean you sent an anonymous email? If so, then how would they contact you even if they wanted to?
At the supermarket near my home in Wisconsin, USA called Pick N' Save, the card has a bar code on it that they put through the scanner at checkout, then the cash register automatically gives you all the in store special prices--without the card you pay full price on everything.
They advertise the lower price right in the store, occasionally they have signs in the store that say something like: "buy $50 worth of groceries, get this loaf of bread free". During Thanksgiving, you get a discounted price on turkey based on how much you've spent at thier store during the year--The more you spend the cheaper the turkey is per pound.
I think new fiber can bend almost as much as a copper wire.
My thought exactly!
Well, I guess I have to be more obvious too. Unless learning Zen means you are magical, your eyes can only be in one place at one time. If you happen to be looking at some pretty display in the dashboard during a second that a kid or an animal runs out, you will kill whatever is in front of you.
Oh, and I consider it bragging when people swing around degrees or accomplishments, but then I've not spent most of my life examining my consiousness or learning how to use my body to inflict harm: I've been reading a dictionary.
You seem to imply that you would love this stuff in your car, because you have such superior driving ability and your apparently larger brain than the "simpletons".
My not understanding why anyone is proud of being able to do something as mundane as driving not withstanding, it's a fact that it takes less than a few seconds for a car to go careening off the road.
In Wisconsin, if you leave the road you'll hit a tree. If you are driving through Montana and leave the road there's nothing to hit--so I might agree with you that I'd use such features there. However the "open range" and the possibility of hitting a cow might deter me even there.
Make this look like a spider and yeah, this would have huge ick factor for most of the public. Maybe if it looked like a cute little (very, very miniature) puppy.
I think it's a great idea, esp. if while trimming public hair it can detect STD's like herpes or genital warts or whatever. Honestly, how often do you give your genitals a through examination? Every day? Oh... I didn't realize...
Make it voice activated, it IM's the car in front of you when you scream out an expletive, with a pre-set hate message.
He probably took five minutes to download the code from the internet, then passed out...
There are people who don't live paycheck to paycheck?
Perhaps I could convince you to remove the stick from your ass.
"I can do anything with my iPod"
Swim?
I suppose after the six hours waiting in the airport and getting molested by security each way it might still be possible to make the roundtrip in a day.
An African American friend of mine was trying to prove a point by saying that if you added up all the people who were "minority" status, they would make up the majority of people in the USA (IE, whites comprise less than 50%). I hopped on census.gov and showed him that the population is ~70% white (I don't remember exactly).
Worse... you mean like harvesting bull semen?
Maybe the wanted fast PC's so that users could get what they needed quickly and get off?
I, Robot is definately worth seeing. I recommend!