Bla bla bla bulshit bulshit [big word paying quadruple at scrabble] blah blah blah more bulshit.
Si hablas tan bien español porque no escribes tu respuesta en español? Quizás solo sabes decir "yo hablo español", ou peut être que tu est simplement un petit enculé qui utilise babelfish? De toute façon moi aussi je peux prétendre parler d'autres langues en plus du français espagnol et anglais mais juste dire trois mot en celle ci ne prouverais pas vraiment que je la "maîtrise". Voici un exemple mon hostie de petit comique.
Ich spreche Deutsches
Parlo italiano
Eu falo o português
Mais demande-moi de tenir une conversation en une de ces langues et je ne peut pas placer un mot devant l'autre Me gustaría verte intentar de argumentar en una lengua que no es la tuya jilipoyas.
You where the first to make a personal attack so don't complain about an "Ad hominem" (without the "-") asshole.
And if in any case someone want to believe that a corporation have a personality I will then suggest to watch this movie : "The Corporation".
"...One central theme of the documentary is an attempt to assess the "personality" of the corporate "person" by using diagnostic criteria like the DSM-IV; Robert Hare, a University of British Columbia Psychology Professor and FBI consultant, compares the modern, profit-driven corporation to that of a clinically diagnosed psychopath..."
By the way I am not a communist hippy but a proud owner of two company's and think that honesty and business can go together.
Depending who take responsibility for the actions of the corporation some companies act better than others, the problem with public companies is that nobody wants to take responsibility for their negatives actions. Stockholders want no responsibility but profit and CEO's claim they have to obey to stockholders.
How about those of us who played Collossal Cave and Zork?
Could this work?
[prompt]
>north
The Troll Room
This is a small room with passages to the east and south and a forbidding hole leading west. Bloodstains and deep scratches (perhaps made by an axe) mar the walls.
A nasty-looking troll, brandishing a bloody axe, blocks all passages out of the room.
>moderate troll -1
The troll vanish, humiliated by your geekdom superpowers.
>
If technology keeps developing at the rate it has been, how long will it be before prosthetic limbs become superior to the ones we are born with?
Genetic discovery is also evolving very fast and I wont be surprise that it will be easier to inject ourselves a DNA enhancer that will augment our muscular performances, boost our immunization and healing capacities, give us some "bath like" radar vision and really enlarge some part of the human body by some 3 to 6 inches. Of course you all understood I was talking about the brain.;)
Even if still scary, I think those kind of tweaking are better than to turn people into "Borgs/Robocops/Inspectors Gadgets".
Still, I think you point is valid for some enhancement. In my opinion hardware tweaking that could be useful is maybe a brain data port ala Matrix so we can comunicate and learn almost instantly.
//And also now that I think about it, maybe also a "frickin laser beam on the forehead."
First of all, lots of the money comes mostly from donation and private sector (think Paul Allan) then SETI@home project is done by volunteers that give their CPU time for free. They decided to support this project because it give them hope that some day we will be more than an isolated specie killing each other for resources on a small rock turning around the sun. If someone tells me that I must live without dreams and only occupy my time with practical URGENT matters I prefer die right now. Asking the world to do the same is equivalent.
In my opinion football, baseball, basket ball and rap music are a much bigger waste of human resources and money than researching for the most important discovery of human kind. But many people will disagree with me because sports and entertainment makes them dream and keep them going in life and I respect that.
Our world must have a balanced strategy and the amount of resources used on SETI are insignificant compare to what we spend on War, Entertainment and Everyday Comforts. Think to cut on those before touching a penny of SETI.
Classical "there is more pressing problems"
on
New and Improved SETI
·
· Score: 2, Funny
Research for health is IMHO a priority for what we can do at the moment on earth.
Long time ago in some cave...
Ogtor! I told you to stop wasting your time with that wheel invention thingy and don't even think to start working on that metal melting process waste of time. There is much more important stuff to do like hunting animals with rocks and sleeping to regenerate.
"Now, some people theorize that instead of just impacting into the ground, you could land at an angle and "roll" in order to transfer the kinetic energy into a harmless direction. Except that if you think about this physically, it's even worse than just impacting directly into the ground. Now, instead of removing your momentum of fall, you have to redirect it to a perpendicular direction. This takes 40% more force than simply stopping the motion, and would probably result in your entire body exploding like a water balloon, not just your legs."
Well tell that to this guy:
"...Lt. I.M. Chisov was a Russian airman whose Ilyushin IL-4 bomber was attacked by German fighters in January of 1942. Falling nearly 22,000 feet, he hit the edge of a snow-covered ravine and rolled to the bottom. He was badly hurt but survived..."
"...Well, this slashdot poster was...possibly a little hasty earlier and would like
to...reaffirm his allegiance to this country and its human president......For now..."
Let's say for a moment it is confirmed that the thing will hit. Then we will have to determine where its going to hit. We know that damages will only be localized so if it is calculated that the asteroid will fall on an area populated by not so industrialized countries I am really curious how the world will react.
Do powerful countries will prefer to do nothing to avert making a mistake that could possibly send the asteroid on their head?
What could possibly do a small country in africa if nobody wants to help them?
"...GPS to track how fast the teens are driving..."
I worked for a cell phone company (GSM) and I once visited the main network control room and the operators showed me a software that allowed them to triangulate the position of any of their costumer by simply using the antennas of the network.
Also if I wanted to log the speed of a car when someone is using it, I'll think of a better idea. I'll hide a training/running watch with GPS in the trunk; Nobody can turn it off, no monthly subscription, you will be able to export the data on a computer and you will be the only one who can access the data.
There is a difference between having spiritual beliefs and being a fundamentalist zealot. The contributions of Christians to not only the rise of Science but also of society as we know it (schools, hospitals, libraries) is undeniable. Still, there was always a part of that same organisation that was trying to stop and sabotage the work of the great people you named. Like everywhere in society the church is composed of people with progressive tendencies and people with fundamentalist ones and the ones making all the trouble are the fundamentalists.
Dear PTC activists,
We are of the bread of human being that through history promoted science, technology and new ways of communication. Things like The Internet, television, radio and many others exist because of the hard work of many free spirits before us that we admire and from whom we are always trying to take the flame.
In another hand you are of the kind who claimed that the earth was flat and that continue to claim that evolution is non-existent. Your puritan and conservative way of thinking comes from those who have done everything to slow down the research and accomplishment of the first group. If humanity has listened you from the beginning, we will probably still be chasing animals with rocks and sticks and living in caves.
Please stop censuring those technologies that you did not contribute to create, in fact why don't you simply stop using them at all and go communicate though bushes on fire or something else you believe in?
I always liked Roger Moore's James Bond. Much more than the following Bonds. He was the total macho with a cool and withy attitude, not unlike Indiana Jones. I won't be surprise to hear some day that Roger Moore James Bond was an inspiration for Indiana Jones character.
The Brosnan and Dalton Bonds weren't funny or charismatic enough in my opinion and never convinced me as real womanizers. Their character seams even sometimes depressed. Jee what a bunch of wimps!!!;)
I sincerely hope he do so. Like many people I never enjoyed "Temple of Doom" as the two other movies and guess what? NO Nazy are killed in temple of Doom! ZERO, Nada! Coincidence? I don't think so.
So please lots of butchered Nazis Mr. Ford.
(Ok, it was maybe also the side kick kid who was annoying as Jar Jar Binks, the irritating blond chick who was screaming the whole movie or maybe the boring and unbelievable action scenes like when a mine vehicle jump 500 feet in the air and fall strait on the rail of after crossing a precipice.)
With the dollar dropping like a rock I was expecting Europeans to start buying American companies but the scariest scenario will be if the China government starts buying USA piece by piece.
I think we are on something here! The screen saver should send something through the GET like: http://www.spamersite.com/?do_you_want_to_increa se_you_bandwich_by_three_full_gb
What do that means? I don't know what did you learn but you seems kind of confuse and unable to express your opinions. You should use other material than MaxNews and Rush "OxyContin" Limbaugh as source of information.
Me one thing that I remember is that the US dollar went down right after the election. Draw your own conclusions.
See, but we're Americans, so we don't give a shit about you.
Correction YOU are American, Slashdot have a great amount of American members but also a large international base. I don't know why you speak in the name of all Americans or all slashdoters for what I know you are not oficialy elected to represent anybody (maybe you are president of your local club of IBWHSAHA; Ignorant, Bigots, World-Haters, Sociopath Assholes Association). I also want to say that in the contrary to you I don't hate entire nations I only hate the small asshole like you who lives in them, so yes me I give a shit about the rest of the world.
you're all 3rd world socialist pansies.
What did you accomplish in life to think you are superior as an individual? You're country is indeed powerful but you as an individual are nothing for what I know! Only a small inconsequential clown. You are probably working at an unrewarding job (if you work at all) with people giving you shit all day or something like that... Well I have a secret for you: "You are a failure kid, stop hiding behind your country because you are probably a big time loser"
Now that you are on the subject I saw an interesting article about that. Just after the French revolution, the French government decided to put everything in metric. Not only the distances but also the time and the days of the week and time was then calculate by something factor of 10.
What made it fail is not only that it was a total pain in the ass to change every clock and calendars and get use to it but also that weeks were now lasting 10 day but still with only 2 days of weekends and workers were really pissed off about that. They were almost about to start another revolution so the French government decided to drop the metric system on time and dates.
Oh yea and also about my "civilized" comment: It was meant to be told with a wink, so please to the ones that are taking that personally I say go buy yourself a sense of humor somewhere, jee I didn't know that people where now so touchy about something so meaningless and futile.
The guy DID went to see many doctors many times and he is not doing this to play doctor. Because previous doctors weren't able to put the finger on what he have so he decided to write an account of his symptoms on the web and then, if someone can point to what he have he will go to see a specialist about that. He is also suspicious about a condition called "Actinomycosis" and because it's a rare infection he want to reach as many specialists to help him take a decisions on what doctor he should go to see. Going to the ER will do nothing for him, he already did it many times so people, please RTFA and stop commenting stupid stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
Si hablas tan bien español porque no escribes tu respuesta en español? Quizás solo sabes decir "yo hablo español", ou peut être que tu est simplement un petit enculé qui utilise babelfish? De toute façon moi aussi je peux prétendre parler d'autres langues en plus du français espagnol et anglais mais juste dire trois mot en celle ci ne prouverais pas vraiment que je la "maîtrise". Voici un exemple mon hostie de petit comique.
Ich spreche Deutsches
Parlo italiano
Eu falo o português
Mais demande-moi de tenir une conversation en une de ces langues et je ne peut pas placer un mot devant l'autre Me gustaría verte intentar de argumentar en una lengua que no es la tuya jilipoyas.
You where the first to make a personal attack so don't complain about an "Ad hominem" (without the "-") asshole.
How about speaking two more languages than the only one your inconsequential mind can handle and English being my third one?
"...One central theme of the documentary is an attempt to assess the "personality" of the corporate "person" by using diagnostic criteria like the DSM-IV; Robert Hare, a University of British Columbia Psychology Professor and FBI consultant, compares the modern, profit-driven corporation to that of a clinically diagnosed psychopath..."
By the way I am not a communist hippy but a proud owner of two company's and think that honesty and business can go together.
Depending who take responsibility for the actions of the corporation some companies act better than others, the problem with public companies is that nobody wants to take responsibility for their negatives actions. Stockholders want no responsibility but profit and CEO's claim they have to obey to stockholders.
Music stores are also located at "no more than a 15 minute trip". But iTunes still exist.
Could this work?
[prompt]
>north
The Troll Room
This is a small room with passages to the east and south and a forbidding hole leading west. Bloodstains and deep scratches (perhaps made by an axe) mar the walls.
A nasty-looking troll, brandishing a bloody axe, blocks all passages out of the room.
>moderate troll -1
The troll vanish, humiliated by your geekdom superpowers.
>
[/prompt]
Genetic discovery is also evolving very fast and I wont be surprise that it will be easier to inject ourselves a DNA enhancer that will augment our muscular performances, boost our immunization and healing capacities, give us some "bath like" radar vision and really enlarge some part of the human body by some 3 to 6 inches. Of course you all understood I was talking about the brain. ;)
Even if still scary, I think those kind of tweaking are better than to turn people into "Borgs/Robocops/Inspectors Gadgets". Still, I think you point is valid for some enhancement. In my opinion hardware tweaking that could be useful is maybe a brain data port ala Matrix so we can comunicate and learn almost instantly.
In my opinion football, baseball, basket ball and rap music are a much bigger waste of human resources and money than researching for the most important discovery of human kind. But many people will disagree with me because sports and entertainment makes them dream and keep them going in life and I respect that.
Our world must have a balanced strategy and the amount of resources used on SETI are insignificant compare to what we spend on War, Entertainment and Everyday Comforts. Think to cut on those before touching a penny of SETI.
Long time ago in some cave...
Ogtor! I told you to stop wasting your time with that wheel invention thingy and don't even think to start working on that metal melting process waste of time. There is much more important stuff to do like hunting animals with rocks and sleeping to regenerate.
Well tell that to this guy:
"...Lt. I.M. Chisov was a Russian airman whose Ilyushin IL-4 bomber was attacked by German fighters in January of 1942. Falling nearly 22,000 feet, he hit the edge of a snow-covered ravine and rolled to the bottom. He was badly hurt but survived..."
also other examples of surviving free fallers
"...Well, this slashdot poster was...possibly a little hasty earlier and would like to...reaffirm his allegiance to this country and its human president... ...For now..."
[Tears down taped up "HAIL ASTEROID" sign down]
Do powerful countries will prefer to do nothing to avert making a mistake that could possibly send the asteroid on their head?
What could possibly do a small country in africa if nobody wants to help them?
Sharing the torrent links that nobody wants to deal with anymore...
Maybe the perfect medium!
I worked for a cell phone company (GSM) and I once visited the main network control room and the operators showed me a software that allowed them to triangulate the position of any of their costumer by simply using the antennas of the network.
Also if I wanted to log the speed of a car when someone is using it, I'll think of a better idea. I'll hide a training/running watch with GPS in the trunk; Nobody can turn it off, no monthly subscription, you will be able to export the data on a computer and you will be the only one who can access the data.
M4ths 4r n0t s0 imp0rt4nt wh3n y0u c0pens4te with my l33t sk1llz in l4nguage 4nd cultur3!!!!
:(
lol
There is a difference between having spiritual beliefs and being a fundamentalist zealot. The contributions of Christians to not only the rise of Science but also of society as we know it (schools, hospitals, libraries) is undeniable. Still, there was always a part of that same organisation that was trying to stop and sabotage the work of the great people you named. Like everywhere in society the church is composed of people with progressive tendencies and people with fundamentalist ones and the ones making all the trouble are the fundamentalists.
Dear PTC activists, We are of the bread of human being that through history promoted science, technology and new ways of communication. Things like The Internet, television, radio and many others exist because of the hard work of many free spirits before us that we admire and from whom we are always trying to take the flame.
In another hand you are of the kind who claimed that the earth was flat and that continue to claim that evolution is non-existent. Your puritan and conservative way of thinking comes from those who have done everything to slow down the research and accomplishment of the first group. If humanity has listened you from the beginning, we will probably still be chasing animals with rocks and sticks and living in caves.
Please stop censuring those technologies that you did not contribute to create, in fact why don't you simply stop using them at all and go communicate though bushes on fire or something else you believe in?
Sincerely yours.
I always liked Roger Moore's James Bond. Much more than the following Bonds. He was the total macho with a cool and withy attitude, not unlike Indiana Jones. I won't be surprise to hear some day that Roger Moore James Bond was an inspiration for Indiana Jones character.
;)
The Brosnan and Dalton Bonds weren't funny or charismatic enough in my opinion and never convinced me as real womanizers. Their character seams even sometimes depressed. Jee what a bunch of wimps!!!
"with twice more nazis butchered "
I sincerely hope he do so. Like many people I never enjoyed "Temple of Doom" as the two other movies and guess what? NO Nazy are killed in temple of Doom! ZERO, Nada! Coincidence? I don't think so.
So please lots of butchered Nazis Mr. Ford.
(Ok, it was maybe also the side kick kid who was annoying as Jar Jar Binks, the irritating blond chick who was screaming the whole movie or maybe the boring and unbelievable action scenes like when a mine vehicle jump 500 feet in the air and fall strait on the rail of after crossing a precipice.)
With the dollar dropping like a rock I was expecting Europeans to start buying American companies but the scariest scenario will be if the China government starts buying USA piece by piece.
I think we are on something here! The screen saver should send something through the GET like:a se_you_bandwich_by_three_full_gb
http://www.spamersite.com/?do_you_want_to_incre
Add to this the rebel Riker's twin and the Data evil brother and we have a great beginning for an all evil crew.
What do that means? I don't know what did you learn but you seems kind of confuse and unable to express your opinions. You should use other material than MaxNews and Rush "OxyContin" Limbaugh as source of information. Me one thing that I remember is that the US dollar went down right after the election. Draw your own conclusions.
See, but we're Americans, so we don't give a shit about you.
Correction YOU are American, Slashdot have a great amount of American members but also a large international base. I don't know why you speak in the name of all Americans or all slashdoters for what I know you are not oficialy elected to represent anybody (maybe you are president of your local club of IBWHSAHA; Ignorant, Bigots, World-Haters, Sociopath Assholes Association). I also want to say that in the contrary to you I don't hate entire nations I only hate the small asshole like you who lives in them, so yes me I give a shit about the rest of the world.
you're all 3rd world socialist pansies.
What did you accomplish in life to think you are superior as an individual? You're country is indeed powerful but you as an individual are nothing for what I know! Only a small inconsequential clown. You are probably working at an unrewarding job (if you work at all) with people giving you shit all day or something like that... Well I have a secret for you: "You are a failure kid, stop hiding behind your country because you are probably a big time loser"
Enjoy your insignificant unfulfilling life.
What made it fail is not only that it was a total pain in the ass to change every clock and calendars and get use to it but also that weeks were now lasting 10 day but still with only 2 days of weekends and workers were really pissed off about that. They were almost about to start another revolution so the French government decided to drop the metric system on time and dates.
Oh yea and also about my "civilized" comment: It was meant to be told with a wink, so please to the ones that are taking that personally I say go buy yourself a sense of humor somewhere, jee I didn't know that people where now so touchy about something so meaningless and futile.
(sorry I know this debate is a classic but miles say nothing to me and I guess that many international slashdoters feel the same)
The guy DID went to see many doctors many times and he is not doing this to play doctor. Because previous doctors weren't able to put the finger on what he have so he decided to write an account of his symptoms on the web and then, if someone can point to what he have he will go to see a specialist about that. He is also suspicious about a condition called "Actinomycosis" and because it's a rare infection he want to reach as many specialists to help him take a decisions on what doctor he should go to see. Going to the ER will do nothing for him, he already did it many times so people, please RTFA and stop commenting stupid stuff.