Amory Lovins was barking about hypercars years ago. This is not a new idea. Back when he was pissing and moaning, gas was cheap. Now oil's $100 bbl. So, now it "makes sense". Duh. As if making sense has to be about money.
You can DL song by song by song, month after month, or, go to a friend's house and copy his hard drive in a few hours. I have 45,670 songs. Come by with a bottle of wine. We'll hang. We'll laugh, we'll get boozed up. By the time we're done - the songs are copied and you get to go home with a lifetime of music...
Beat the living shit out of them. Male - female - what evs. If the audience pounces on these assholes EVERY TIME, these self absorbed dumb fucks will quickly get the clue that it's not cool, and stop doing it.
1. If the material is on the interwebs via the Guardian (a freakin newspaper) THEN IT IS NO LONGER SECRET.
2. It may still be classified, but that is only because you dumb fucks can't keep up with the world, which is why you're always bombing the crap out of people instead of serving them tea and crumpets like anyone with a civil bone in them would do.
3. As a consequence, all this little episode proves is that you're a bunch of violent incompetent hacks.
4. Fuck you. Assholes.
I was rummaging through my cable collection (it fills an entire cabinet because of all the adaptors) and found a bunch of old S-video cables and I remembered that ADB cables were the same as S-video, and how I saved PILES of money by getting standard boring old S video cable instead of the apple branded ADB for the same functionality.
Can't really do that anymore.
I wonder if this will combine USB / Thunderbolt / firewire. Please dear god...
and its sister stars are only 4 LY away. One would think we'd have gone over them with a fine tooth comb and all we've found is 1 molten hell hole around Cb. Why? Wouldn't even a smallish planet be a lot more visible around AC, Cb, or pC than some galaxy 13.6 billion LY away?
I travel into and out of the USA all the time with thousands of songs, dozens of movies and hundreds of books as pdfs for my personal amusement and edification, and it's all on a hard drive the size of a deck of cards. Why would you bring disks? They're bulky! Just dump it all on a TB drive - it'll cost what, $90? Stupendously more convenient.
exactly. And then there's the more obvious things like RESOURCES. As it is, the Empire of Global Capitalism has to play some very dirty politics to get children to kill their families and villages in order to force other kids into hellish tunnels to scrape together enough coltan for the machine's computer brains. There isn't enough power or fuel in these remote regions to run some hyper computer overlord machine thing, and you can forget about invading the place - the people there are much better adapted than any machine. And that's just coltan. There's a jillion different materials like that. And then there's the problem of fossil fuels - a lot of parts are made of it, or use it to make chemicals that process other materials to make the materials that go into computers. And then there's this little problem of entropy as applied to material systems. Georgescu-Roegen was a fuck nut, but his fundamental point remains: materials degrade and are lost. So, if the materials drop below a certain percentage, they stop being harvestable (% depends on the material) and at that point you have to deal with recycling. And at 99% recycling, you have half the materials you started with after 70 years...
So, basically, this whole notion of the machines taking over is just some idiotic fear driven fantasy cooked up by a bunch of Men who never grew out of being 13 years old and impressed with their penises. It's utter tosh, and the people who advocate it are either charlatans selling snake oil (Kurzweil) or genocidal assholes who need to be put down (the Pentagon / Kremlin / CIA / MI5 etc.)
Seriously. The only thing the machines will do is work for people to do certain things. And so then you have to question WHICH people and WHAT things. I can assure you killing robots will simply be used by one parochial ruling class to destroy another parochial ruling class in order to strip an area of resources to their own benefit and profit. If you want to stop that, get rid of your ruling classes. It's not that hard. Bullets are cheap. They'll use them on you, and if you follow their logic you need to hit them first.
No Superman is going to swoop out of the sky to save your sorry asses. If you want to stop mechanised genocide, it has to start at home, in the streets, now.
is useless. a Total disappointment. It has no PCIe expandability and that is a deal killer for high end video/animation folk. AFAIK, Thunderbolt 2 won't support 16x PCIe3 and the GPU processing is too weak. It will Display 4K but can't handle a proper 4K video editing workflow. In other words: back to Windows / Linux. Move along. Nothing to see here.
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Abundance of Silicon: Earth's Crust/p.p.m.: 277100
FUCK DA POLICE!
I feel fine.
Beer.
Windows 8
Nuff said - stick a fork in it.
they pass on HIV DNA into the human genome? BRILLIANT.
Fuck that shit! It's light years around here buddy!
The Pentagon
Amory Lovins was barking about hypercars years ago. This is not a new idea. Back when he was pissing and moaning, gas was cheap. Now oil's $100 bbl. So, now it "makes sense". Duh. As if making sense has to be about money.
They don't give a fuck about you. At All.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIFGGcX1a5I
You can DL song by song by song, month after month, or, go to a friend's house and copy his hard drive in a few hours. I have 45,670 songs. Come by with a bottle of wine. We'll hang. We'll laugh, we'll get boozed up. By the time we're done - the songs are copied and you get to go home with a lifetime of music...
He fucking LIED. There's a difference.
Beat the living shit out of them. Male - female - what evs. If the audience pounces on these assholes EVERY TIME, these self absorbed dumb fucks will quickly get the clue that it's not cool, and stop doing it.
for a business space in SF are as cheap as say, Burlingame. Or Santa Clara. Or San Jose. Not. Ever.
1. If the material is on the interwebs via the Guardian (a freakin newspaper) THEN IT IS NO LONGER SECRET.
2. It may still be classified, but that is only because you dumb fucks can't keep up with the world, which is why you're always bombing the crap out of people instead of serving them tea and crumpets like anyone with a civil bone in them would do.
3. As a consequence, all this little episode proves is that you're a bunch of violent incompetent hacks.
4. Fuck you. Assholes.
Can't really do that anymore.
I wonder if this will combine USB / Thunderbolt / firewire. Please dear god...
and its sister stars are only 4 LY away. One would think we'd have gone over them with a fine tooth comb and all we've found is 1 molten hell hole around Cb. Why? Wouldn't even a smallish planet be a lot more visible around AC, Cb, or pC than some galaxy 13.6 billion LY away?
I travel into and out of the USA all the time with thousands of songs, dozens of movies and hundreds of books as pdfs for my personal amusement and edification, and it's all on a hard drive the size of a deck of cards. Why would you bring disks? They're bulky! Just dump it all on a TB drive - it'll cost what, $90? Stupendously more convenient.
shut up, troll.
3/4 of it is from fossil fuels. http://www.state.ia.us/government/com/util/energy/electric_profile.html
So, basically, this whole notion of the machines taking over is just some idiotic fear driven fantasy cooked up by a bunch of Men who never grew out of being 13 years old and impressed with their penises. It's utter tosh, and the people who advocate it are either charlatans selling snake oil (Kurzweil) or genocidal assholes who need to be put down (the Pentagon / Kremlin / CIA / MI5 etc.)
Seriously. The only thing the machines will do is work for people to do certain things. And so then you have to question WHICH people and WHAT things. I can assure you killing robots will simply be used by one parochial ruling class to destroy another parochial ruling class in order to strip an area of resources to their own benefit and profit. If you want to stop that, get rid of your ruling classes. It's not that hard. Bullets are cheap. They'll use them on you, and if you follow their logic you need to hit them first.
No Superman is going to swoop out of the sky to save your sorry asses. If you want to stop mechanised genocide, it has to start at home, in the streets, now.
Remember:
is useless. a Total disappointment. It has no PCIe expandability and that is a deal killer for high end video/animation folk. AFAIK, Thunderbolt 2 won't support 16x PCIe3 and the GPU processing is too weak. It will Display 4K but can't handle a proper 4K video editing workflow. In other words: back to Windows / Linux. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Do what I do - covert them to pdf or epub. There are lots of ways to do that.
Everyone I know shares hard drives filled with tens of thousands of books.
I live in Canada, so we use metrics, but spelling is a hodgepodge of American and British.