from the article: Meanwhile, Fiat is working with Microsoft's Automotive Business Unit to create the next generation of communications features for drivers. The goal, Mr. San Pedro said, is to use voice communications to control various features, like lights, air-conditioning or searching for the closest gas station
gizmodo.com and fleshbot.com are run by the same people, and written in the same style, it's no surprise that these guys vote for whatever gives them an erection.
A lot of people just don't know exactly what karma is.
Here's a few hints: Karma, dharma and samsara are three fundamental aspects of the Hindu world view.
Dharma, one's appropriate role or attributes, gives life its order and predictability.
Karma, the measure of how well one performs one's dharma, explains why one is born where he or she is, why there is suffering and seeming injustices.
Samsara, the continuous round of birth, death and rebirth, is the context for all experience.
For society to function, everything must do its dharma. If even a dog or tree doesn't perform its dharma, society cannot function.
Therefore, in order to have bad karma, the record industry must first not properly play its "role" and then die. In its next "incarnation", it would then get a lesser dharma or role to play.
The thing about evolution that bugs me is, we have seen the results from the fossil record, but we haven't seen it in action yet (apart from our genetic engineering -- which is artificial, if you consider humans as outside of "natural" evolutionary forces).
How do we determine whether or not humans are evolving, as a species? Where do we put the thresholds?
IMO we can only use comparison, but the human genome mapping is a recent endeavor, so we'll have to wait quite a few generations before a meaningful comparison can be made.
We don't even know for sure what it is that makes us humans, otherwise, philosophy would use the scientific method and most philosophers would agree with each other.
I think that as we invent new tools, those tools will make us evolve further, thus enabling us to invent better tools and further evolving...
This is what's been happening since we discovered how to make fire all by ourselves.
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from the article:
Meanwhile, Fiat is working with Microsoft's Automotive Business Unit to create the next generation of communications features for drivers. The goal, Mr. San Pedro said, is to use voice communications to control various features, like lights, air-conditioning or searching for the closest gas station
Clippy-rage, anyone?
now all I have to do is plug a battery on my tinfoil hat, and I'll have 20% more brainpower to fight the aliens!
is at 149$... no dice with that suggestion I guess.
The article doesnt even mention the devices that run Linus... what a let-down.
I, for one, would have welcome our new Linus-run overlord stuff.
^_^
does this mean you can heal your character by visiting a prostitute, and then mugging her to get your money back?
yea but the vapochill system would reduce the amount of disposable money I have to a point below an acceptable threshold.
Intelligent life has to start as "just life"...
nah, the proper solution is to develop the convenience store liquid nitrogen market.
If it's so hot, maybe it's not cool enough.
but once they start making fake teeth that can run Linux, you're all going to fight for the right to dream about having them in your mouth.
^_^
I wonder if the instruments are going to measure the effects of the sonic boom(s) on entry into Titan's atmosphere too...
they should get Ashlee Simpson to play too
maybe she can lipsync a review of the game afterwards?
gizmodo.com and fleshbot.com are run by the same people, and written in the same style, it's no surprise that these guys vote for whatever gives them an erection.
if you take into account the fact that the Earth has a finite lifetime, in the end, it doesn't matter.
we're all going to die one day, and I'm talking about total extinction here, unless we develop the technology to colonize other planets/systems.
I guess it would be nice if, in the mean time, our planet wasn't too uncomfortable to live on, though.
I was expecting something involving quantum fluctuations, baryon sweeps and tachyon beams.
have you ever been on a dairy farm?
if there are any cats around, you can often see some of them walking up to cows' dripping teats and licking the milk.
I'd think humans weren't the first to think about drinking it.
Do you think we could run this game on a beowulf cluster?
I suppose it's like the argument about whether bullets kill or the human who pulled the gun's trigger.
Color me medieval, but I prefer the following analogy:
Crossbows don't kill people, quarrels kill people.
A lot of people just don't know exactly what karma is.
Here's a few hints:
Karma, dharma and samsara are three fundamental aspects of the Hindu world view.
Dharma, one's appropriate role or attributes, gives life its order and predictability.
Karma, the measure of how well one performs one's dharma, explains why one is born where he or she is, why there is suffering and seeming injustices.
Samsara, the continuous round of birth, death and rebirth, is the context for all experience.
For society to function, everything must do its dharma. If even a dog or tree doesn't perform its dharma, society cannot function.
Therefore, in order to have bad karma, the record industry must first not properly play its "role" and then die. In its next "incarnation", it would then get a lesser dharma or role to play.
The thing about evolution that bugs me is, we have seen the results from the fossil record, but we haven't seen it in action yet (apart from our genetic engineering -- which is artificial, if you consider humans as outside of "natural" evolutionary forces).
How do we determine whether or not humans are evolving, as a species? Where do we put the thresholds?
IMO we can only use comparison, but the human genome mapping is a recent endeavor, so we'll have to wait quite a few generations before a meaningful comparison can be made.
maybe they should consider a Bridezilla event?
We don't even know for sure what it is that makes us humans, otherwise, philosophy would use the scientific method and most philosophers would agree with each other.
I think that as we invent new tools, those tools will make us evolve further, thus enabling us to invent better tools and further evolving...
This is what's been happening since we discovered how to make fire all by ourselves.
well if you want to sell that Laser Disk Star Wars trilogy, let me know...
all the companies producing new mp3 players agree...
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having OSX in cars instead should give a new meaning to the term "Road Apple". ;)
jus' kiddin'!