So when you go out and find you can't get a job as a techie anyway, you can at least entertain yourself by painting wonderful images onto the hamburgers you prepare...
Well, this has happened to me once, and I asked a cop friend of mine in the same department for an explination(I had heard it before, but never knew if it was true). I was going exactly the speed limit, hugging the boarder line, and was being very careful not the weave through the yellow line (I had gotten a speed limit the day before, and another would completely rape my insurance rate). According to the cop I asked, these are all very suspiciouse things for a police officer to see. Normally, the only people being so careful in their driving are either slightly intoxicated, by drugs or alchol. So they can pull you over for suspiciouse sercomstance. If you pass a sobriety test, its ment to never hit the logs.
Now what we need to do is dissolve the electoral college as it is, and introduce a set up in which everyones vote counts towards an outcome. A system where votes are added up, and the person with the most votes wins. A little more democracy is just what we need. Where it doesn't matter what the majority of the state is, that a republican in Massachusetts, or a Democrat in Virginia knows that their vote does count...
For the development of E-books that contain vast libraries. I believe that all the books in the library of congress can be stored on one or two terabytes. Imagine, having all historical books and documents in a single book... From Aristotle to Zinill... All we need is a good powersource and more flexible e-paper and were all set. I believe Philips is working on a good e-paper, and that "new lithium battery we read about last week"might fit the bill for the time being...
Anyone else think this is a good use of the technology?
If this is true, all apple needs to worry about now is trying to get the G5 to run a bit cooler, and improve the heatsink, and we might see shiny new G5 powerboooks...
*Drool*
Now, here is a little question I have, and correct me if I'm wrong: If this battery has the ability to store 200% more energy, then what makes you think that it will last 200% as long? Meaning if computers are running faster and fater, and consuming more power, than all this will do is either provide the computers of today a longer charge, or the computers of the next couple of years the same average lifespan we see today.
We all know it takes just one small detail to truely ruin a movie for many fans *Cough*mitoclorians*Cough.
And even though I was sorely dissopointed with the last three movies Lucas made for this series (Including the Ewok Adventure... *Shudder*), I am still going to be in this line for a week to see the movie...
"This is not the post you are looking for."
If this movie has been ruined beyond a shadow of a doubt (not saying that it has, just that the trailer hints towards that), and tries to trash my beloved books, radio, and t.v sieries, then this is proof once and for all in the non-existance of god. Hear me out:
God:" I refuse to prove I exist, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
Me: Ah, but you see, by ruining the 'Hitchhikers guide', beyond the tamperings of mere mortals should be able to achieve, you proved you do in fact exist. Therfore you do not. QED.
God: "Oh no, I did no thing of that" and promptly vanishes in a poof of logic.
This is quite a nice analogy. Genetic engineering at the moment is similar to 'cutting and pasting' pre-existing code, and 'hardcoding'. True genetic engineering will be when synthetic biology will be fleshed out. Then the field of genetics and the field of programming will be remarcably simmilar.
Who knows. Mabe in six-ten more years Lionhead entertainment will make a Black and White MMORPG. I say that it will be in six-ten years because of the insane computing power to make a game like this truely enjoyable. Imagine, being a god. Everyone knows the spells, but you have to manipulate the enviorment, gain faith, and learn the complex mouse movements to properly utilize them. It would take an hour or two before the first spell would even be cast... It would actually be kinda fun, especially for those of us with a god complex... Virtual families? I'd prefer virtual zeolots, worshipers, and minions...
*Wipes drool from mouth*
That is a card North Korea can bluff with but never play. Even if they did, they would be lucky if any of their missiles could hit the continental US. Sorry Hawaii ^_^.
Any nuclear missiles they have would not be aimed at the U.S. They would be aimed at SOL(sp?). Just as the rest of their missiles, and the majority of their army is positioned to hit in under an hour. This is their get out of jail card; always has been, and always will be. Any retaliation towards N. Korea, and the S. Korea capital, all stationed U.S personnel there, many U.S corporations that have offices there, etc., will be gone in a flash. They do not attack because we (America/UN) will wipe their crazy leaders, military, etc. , off the map. We do not attack because if we do, they will take as many people that we (America/UN) care about. This does not fit in my definition of a bluff, because I know with all information present that this will in fact happen.
Hemp. The answer is Hemp. The answer is always hemp. Weren't you paying attention?
Yeah, but a power plant burning hundreds of pounds of hemp a day...
Wait a tick, this is probably the only power plant people will want to live by...
Well, the chance that someone will read the parent, and then mine being slim, I will just like to say, for the record, that I plan to treat the parent as though it tried to state a legitimate, legible claim. i will perhaps watch a buddies copy one day from irc or private ftp site, maybe rent it a year from now, but i will not pay to watch this bastardization of somethign i cherished.
Yes... A bastardization... Written by Douglas Adams before his death, and only slightly tweaked by Disney, fearing the nerd riots of 200"5?". i am a big COLLECTOR of adams' published works, gilded edged hardvover editions, signed editions, his two video games, tv interviews, radio tapes, etc etc etc
Then you know that Douglas Adams always changes the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, keeping his ideas fresh. I believe that he himself wrote in the script that the Heart of Gold should be shaped almost, but not quite, totally unlike a tennis shoe. "Ford Prefect" was a pasty white and british as you can imagine. no hint of ghetto accent in the bbs series or mention in the books.
Um... Have you ever met a black Englishman? They do not have the steriotypical "urban" accent. Aside from that, not touching this one...
I have high hopes for this movie. They had DNA write it, they kept his family in the loop even after DNA's death, and they seem to have a pretty good team together for this. And honestly, who cares what color the cast is? They are playing (mostly) aliens. Humanoid true, but not human. For logics sake I would be surprised, should they be biologically similar to humanity, that they are not all black. The darker melanin can better handle UV radiation, so for a space traveller that would be a great benefit...
A G5 laptop will:
*Bake a mans little soldiers to the point that a male birth-control pill is no longer needed...
* Be able to increase a nerds Charisma by +20
* Act as a hot plate for food or drink
* And so much more... ... And I am still going to buy one the day it is released...
It depends: are you moving/traveling to former British China, or interior mainland China? Are you going to an economically strong, ethnically diverse region, or a poor farming area? If you go to either Hong Kong, or Shanghai, you will be fine. Buy a graphics card. Try to bring it back. Have fun. Heck, Hong Kong still sounds more English than Chinese in many parts. The police are there to protect you, but also to protect the people. They don't want change. They are a very large country, and so they are naturally unstable. All we read about is them trying to maintain a hold on their country, and at the moment, despite all their problems, everyone gets fed. So as long as you don't threaten their stability, you will be fine. Shooting an Americain (especially if you are white or black), is a big no no. They do not want to trigger a new version of the sinking of the Lusitania. So mainly, worry not. If you are a woman, learn the word "pregnant". They will not arrest (on most occasions), and mainly treat civily a pregnant woman, despite law violation. Thats about all I can say, from asking family and friends about their trips and for advice. I myself am planning a trip, even though my family history in China ended kinda violently... But hey, one cannot live in the past, right?
What G4 TechTV did was very bad marketing. Their ratings were poor, they were a constant mockery amongst the tech-savvy, and all they did was waste money. TechTV on the other hand was doing quite well. What G4 should of done was keep TechTV the same, and gradually reduce their own programming to one or two shows that seem to have good ratings, add that to TechTV, and THEN eliminate their own channel. But no, they just sat down and said "You know, they really have the viewership that we always wanted, so now our programs can be heard..."
Ah, marketing departments, is there anything you don't think you can do?
Not that anyone cares, but here they are:
Not in order:
1.) A Clockwork Orange
2.) Fight Club
3.) Pulp Fiction
4.) Kill Bill (grouped together)
5.) Lord of the Rings
6.) Goodbye Lenin
7.) Bubba Ho-tep
8.) Princess Mononoke
9.) The Matrix Trilogy
10.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
It took me three days to get Everquest working on my linux box.
I gave up after three days trying to get the EQ2 beta to work.
I got World of Warcraft to work in three Hours.
Now, as those that know me can attest, I am horribly inept in linux. I just screw around with it because I like trying to learn new things (and I hate Microsoft with a passion). So I am not, *ahem* "1337", like many of you slashdot readers, but come on, if it took me a fraction of the time to figure out how to install it on my Mandrake box (with wineX), Blizzard is doing something very right.
I bet I am not the only person here that, when Honda announced the ASIMO, automatically started to wonder if they were trying to fit a "V" at the end of the acronym... And then started to wonder where Honda is planning to take this project. "Robots of Dawn" anyone?
Nothing like spending six hours of ones life fixing my girlfriends parents "broken" computer... How can people install all that crap? Luckily I had a copy of Mandrake, they had an easy background to find, and they are so inexperienced they don't know the difference.
P.S. - Disney hasn't done anything original on their own in YEARS (nay, DECADES).
You mean these don't exist?:
"Never Cry Wolf" 1983
"The Lion King" 1994
"Lilo & Stitch"
Please, though there will always be movies based on books, and animated cartoons, Disney either has the funds to properly cover the issue, or tries new ways to make its childrens films. That and they are the only movie company to have the balls to produce the new "Hitchhiker's Guide" Movie, with the script Adams wrote before he died. To take that on gives them infinate props; change the script, fans will kill you. Don't change the script, prudish fanatics will kill you. Its a lose lose situation, and only Disney can do it.
And no, this isn't another "Real Genius" reference (Though I was highly tempted), but this COULD be a progression towards the militaristic aspect of the set of philosophies set down by the great scientist Nikola Tesla. To have a defensive network capable of destroying a hostile target from a great distance is a fine deterrent for war, and only offensive countries would try to have anything else.
Really, think about it: If all countries had a defensive network of these, America wouldn't be so quick to bomb civilian targets...
In tradition of keeping threads going on for far to long...
What an age we live in, where people try to automate traumatizing their kids.
Listen, save the money you'd spend on this thing and just beat the hell out of the kid every time he comes to your room.
I recommend a belt.
Use a sack full of oranges, then you can hit the kid all you want, without fear of bruses allerting the teachers of your actions.
I mean this in jest, not as a heartless b***ard
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So when you go out and find you can't get a job as a techie anyway, you can at least entertain yourself by painting wonderful images onto the hamburgers you prepare...
Well, this has happened to me once, and I asked a cop friend of mine in the same department for an explination(I had heard it before, but never knew if it was true). I was going exactly the speed limit, hugging the boarder line, and was being very careful not the weave through the yellow line (I had gotten a speed limit the day before, and another would completely rape my insurance rate). According to the cop I asked, these are all very suspiciouse things for a police officer to see. Normally, the only people being so careful in their driving are either slightly intoxicated, by drugs or alchol. So they can pull you over for suspiciouse sercomstance. If you pass a sobriety test, its ment to never hit the logs.
Now what we need to do is dissolve the electoral college as it is, and introduce a set up in which everyones vote counts towards an outcome. A system where votes are added up, and the person with the most votes wins. A little more democracy is just what we need. Where it doesn't matter what the majority of the state is, that a republican in Massachusetts, or a Democrat in Virginia knows that their vote does count...
Mabe in my lifetime...
For the development of E-books that contain vast libraries. I believe that all the books in the library of congress can be stored on one or two terabytes. Imagine, having all historical books and documents in a single book... From Aristotle to Zinill... All we need is a good powersource and more flexible e-paper and were all set. I believe Philips is working on a good e-paper, and that "new lithium battery we read about last week"might fit the bill for the time being...
Anyone else think this is a good use of the technology?
If this is true, all apple needs to worry about now is trying to get the G5 to run a bit cooler, and improve the heatsink, and we might see shiny new G5 powerboooks...
*Drool*
Now, here is a little question I have, and correct me if I'm wrong: If this battery has the ability to store 200% more energy, then what makes you think that it will last 200% as long? Meaning if computers are running faster and fater, and consuming more power, than all this will do is either provide the computers of today a longer charge, or the computers of the next couple of years the same average lifespan we see today.
We all know it takes just one small detail to truely ruin a movie for many fans *Cough*mitoclorians*Cough.
And even though I was sorely dissopointed with the last three movies Lucas made for this series (Including the Ewok Adventure... *Shudder*), I am still going to be in this line for a week to see the movie...
"This is not the post you are looking for."
If this movie has been ruined beyond a shadow of a doubt (not saying that it has, just that the trailer hints towards that), and tries to trash my beloved books, radio, and t.v sieries, then this is proof once and for all in the non-existance of god. Hear me out:
God:" I refuse to prove I exist, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
Me: Ah, but you see, by ruining the 'Hitchhikers guide', beyond the tamperings of mere mortals should be able to achieve, you proved you do in fact exist. Therfore you do not. QED.
God: "Oh no, I did no thing of that" and promptly vanishes in a poof of logic.
Welcome our new hoopy frood overlords. (It had to be done, sorry)
And the cure to exersize is jolt cola, that causes cancer...
And the circle is now complete.
This is quite a nice analogy. Genetic engineering at the moment is similar to 'cutting and pasting' pre-existing code, and 'hardcoding'. True genetic engineering will be when synthetic biology will be fleshed out. Then the field of genetics and the field of programming will be remarcably simmilar.
Who knows. Mabe in six-ten more years Lionhead entertainment will make a Black and White MMORPG. I say that it will be in six-ten years because of the insane computing power to make a game like this truely enjoyable.
Imagine, being a god. Everyone knows the spells, but you have to manipulate the enviorment, gain faith, and learn the complex mouse movements to properly utilize them. It would take an hour or two before the first spell would even be cast... It would actually be kinda fun, especially for those of us with a god complex... Virtual families? I'd prefer virtual zeolots, worshipers, and minions...
*Wipes drool from mouth*
That is a card North Korea can bluff with but never play. Even if they did, they would be lucky if any of their missiles could hit the continental US. Sorry Hawaii ^_^.
Any nuclear missiles they have would not be aimed at the U.S. They would be aimed at SOL(sp?). Just as the rest of their missiles, and the majority of their army is positioned to hit in under an hour. This is their get out of jail card; always has been, and always will be. Any retaliation towards N. Korea, and the S. Korea capital, all stationed U.S personnel there, many U.S corporations that have offices there, etc., will be gone in a flash. They do not attack because we (America/UN) will wipe their crazy leaders, military, etc. , off the map. We do not attack because if we do, they will take as many people that we (America/UN) care about. This does not fit in my definition of a bluff, because I know with all information present that this will in fact happen.
Hemp. The answer is Hemp. The answer is always hemp. Weren't you paying attention?
Yeah, but a power plant burning hundreds of pounds of hemp a day...
Wait a tick, this is probably the only power plant people will want to live by...
Is a GIANT magnet...
Well, the chance that someone will read the parent, and then mine being slim, I will just like to say, for the record, that I plan to treat the parent as though it tried to state a legitimate, legible claim.
i will perhaps watch a buddies copy one day from irc or private ftp site, maybe rent it a year from now, but i will not pay to watch this bastardization of somethign i cherished.
Yes... A bastardization... Written by Douglas Adams before his death, and only slightly tweaked by Disney, fearing the nerd riots of 200"5?".
i am a big COLLECTOR of adams' published works, gilded edged hardvover editions, signed editions, his two video games, tv interviews, radio tapes, etc etc etc
Then you know that Douglas Adams always changes the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, keeping his ideas fresh. I believe that he himself wrote in the script that the Heart of Gold should be shaped almost, but not quite, totally unlike a tennis shoe.
"Ford Prefect" was a pasty white and british as you can imagine. no hint of ghetto accent in the bbs series or mention in the books.
Um... Have you ever met a black Englishman? They do not have the steriotypical "urban" accent. Aside from that, not touching this one...
I have high hopes for this movie. They had DNA write it, they kept his family in the loop even after DNA's death, and they seem to have a pretty good team together for this. And honestly, who cares what color the cast is? They are playing (mostly) aliens. Humanoid true, but not human. For logics sake I would be surprised, should they be biologically similar to humanity, that they are not all black. The darker melanin can better handle UV radiation, so for a space traveller that would be a great benefit...
A G5 laptop will:
... And I am still going to buy one the day it is released...
*Bake a mans little soldiers to the point that a male birth-control pill is no longer needed...
* Be able to increase a nerds Charisma by +20
* Act as a hot plate for food or drink
* And so much more...
It depends: are you moving/traveling to former British China, or interior mainland China? Are you going to an economically strong, ethnically diverse region, or a poor farming area? If you go to either Hong Kong, or Shanghai, you will be fine. Buy a graphics card. Try to bring it back. Have fun. Heck, Hong Kong still sounds more English than Chinese in many parts.
The police are there to protect you, but also to protect the people. They don't want change. They are a very large country, and so they are naturally unstable. All we read about is them trying to maintain a hold on their country, and at the moment, despite all their problems, everyone gets fed. So as long as you don't threaten their stability, you will be fine. Shooting an Americain (especially if you are white or black), is a big no no. They do not want to trigger a new version of the sinking of the Lusitania. So mainly, worry not. If you are a woman, learn the word "pregnant". They will not arrest (on most occasions), and mainly treat civily a pregnant woman, despite law violation.
Thats about all I can say, from asking family and friends about their trips and for advice. I myself am planning a trip, even though my family history in China ended kinda violently... But hey, one cannot live in the past, right?
What G4 TechTV did was very bad marketing. Their ratings were poor, they were a constant mockery amongst the tech-savvy, and all they did was waste money. TechTV on the other hand was doing quite well. What G4 should of done was keep TechTV the same, and gradually reduce their own programming to one or two shows that seem to have good ratings, add that to TechTV, and THEN eliminate their own channel. But no, they just sat down and said "You know, they really have the viewership that we always wanted, so now our programs can be heard..."
Ah, marketing departments, is there anything you don't think you can do?
Not that anyone cares, but here they are:
Not in order:
1.) A Clockwork Orange
2.) Fight Club
3.) Pulp Fiction
4.) Kill Bill (grouped together)
5.) Lord of the Rings
6.) Goodbye Lenin
7.) Bubba Ho-tep
8.) Princess Mononoke
9.) The Matrix Trilogy
10.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
It took me three days to get Everquest working on my linux box.
I gave up after three days trying to get the EQ2 beta to work.
I got World of Warcraft to work in three Hours.
Now, as those that know me can attest, I am horribly inept in linux. I just screw around with it because I like trying to learn new things (and I hate Microsoft with a passion). So I am not, *ahem* "1337", like many of you slashdot readers, but come on, if it took me a fraction of the time to figure out how to install it on my Mandrake box (with wineX), Blizzard is doing something very right.
I bet I am not the only person here that, when Honda announced the ASIMO, automatically started to wonder if they were trying to fit a "V" at the end of the acronym...
And then started to wonder where Honda is planning to take this project. "Robots of Dawn" anyone?
Nothing like spending six hours of ones life fixing my girlfriends parents "broken" computer... How can people install all that crap?
Luckily I had a copy of Mandrake, they had an easy background to find, and they are so inexperienced they don't know the difference.
P.S. - Disney hasn't done anything original on their own in YEARS (nay, DECADES).
You mean these don't exist?:
"Never Cry Wolf" 1983
"The Lion King" 1994
"Lilo & Stitch"
Please, though there will always be movies based on books, and animated cartoons, Disney either has the funds to properly cover the issue, or tries new ways to make its childrens films.
That and they are the only movie company to have the balls to produce the new "Hitchhiker's Guide" Movie, with the script Adams wrote before he died. To take that on gives them infinate props; change the script, fans will kill you. Don't change the script, prudish fanatics will kill you. Its a lose lose situation, and only Disney can do it.
And no, this isn't another "Real Genius" reference (Though I was highly tempted), but this COULD be a progression towards the militaristic aspect of the set of philosophies set down by the great scientist Nikola Tesla. To have a defensive network capable of destroying a hostile target from a great distance is a fine deterrent for war, and only offensive countries would try to have anything else.
Really, think about it: If all countries had a defensive network of these, America wouldn't be so quick to bomb civilian targets...
In tradition of keeping threads going on for far to long...
What an age we live in, where people try to automate traumatizing their kids.
Listen, save the money you'd spend on this thing and just beat the hell out of the kid every time he comes to your room.
I recommend a belt.
Use a sack full of oranges, then you can hit the kid all you want, without fear of bruses allerting the teachers of your actions.
I mean this in jest, not as a heartless b***ard