The expression "I wish I was a fly on the wall when $EVENT happened" is soon to become reality... Would you believe 20 minutes into the future?
Carter: What I wouldn't give to be a fly on that boardroom wall. Bryce: Well, you can if you like. Carter: What? Cheviot:...got to stop this now!... Carter: Bryce, what is this? Bryce: Oh, it's a bug. Well, a fly, actually. It was my graduation project when I was eleven. Carter: A mechanical fly?
Lying is not good for the individual, because it encourages other individuals to lie as well. That's basically what they said about time travel: that the only stable state of causality is if time travel is impossible. Yet we still always will be having had liars.
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You won't get a scheming robot until you get a robot that has suspicion. Until then, as long as there are only trusting robots to exploit, there's no need for the lying robots to evolve the ability to scheme.
I'd next split up the lying group of robots and set up two more experiments: one with two lying camps and another with two lying camps and one trusting camp. Maybe a third with two trusting camps and two lying camps. Goals: evolve suspicion and selective deception.
3) Clear resolution on the real story, which is Rob's relationship to whats-her-face. Beth. I did find myself comparing that to the movie Miracle Mile (1988), both the ending (though my party and I left before the credits ended) and how there was so much of mundane events before the impelling event that drove the rest of the story.
Though the bells only rang because I'd watched the DVD of Miracle Mile so recently.
But then, you could also compare Cloverfield to The Birds, especially the lack of explanation of cause and lack of a final victory.
It's a far too common conceit in movies that, if something isn't on camera, the characters are oblivious to it (such as people walking down an empty street suddenly notice a dead body directly in front of them when they're only 10 feet away from it, or like Hud turning around for the creature's extreme close-up) unless it is a Spielburgian moment where the camera stays on a reaction of a character to something for a pregnant pause before the reveal by spinning the camera or having them run away, leading whatever it is to the front of the camera.
Even the audio track engages in trickery like this, so that you don't hear a helicopter landing next to the camera until it is on screen, or the first reveal of the sights and sounds of the War Room in WarGames.
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I bet it will look fantastic on DVD. And it apparently was shot with an HD camera, so it should have an HD DVD or Blu-ray release, though I think the Sony CineAlta F23 would be a bit bulky to be hauling around from a going-away party though an attack on Manhattan. I doubt I'd be handing something like that over to an amateur in a party setting.
I will be surprised if the next film doesn't have the camera in a paint shaker for the entire time they like shaking the camera so much. "JITTER". Coming soon to a theater near you.
I've seen that some goons around here are starting to criticize anyone using liberal quotes, calling them unoriginal non thinking copy pasting drones. There are those who have learned from history and would rather others not repeat it so that they can.
Is a criminal record supposed to be secret? If so, then who are we trying to protect with such secrecy? Then why put it out of band requiring a search engine to find? Why not brand it onto people's foreheads, so all their past crimes are displayed plainly for everyone to see?
I still have my Humax DVD-R TiVo, but it too has fallen to disuse. I don't even use it to play back DVDs, even though the 8-second replay option is something I've wanted in a DVD player. Its burner has only been used to burn episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on a lark of archiving a full year "because I can", until I missed an episode due to expiration. Now there's no point: I can do a much better job using my Mac.
Its limitations today are that I can't burn podcasts (without laundering them through the analog hole), I can't transfer HD programming to it (even just as a backing store), and it will only burn content it records itself. I can transfer anything (except podcasts) to my desktop computer and burn them as files for off-line storage, but I can't burn video as files using the Humax TiVo. And no editing features either. Not even trimming the start or end.
Of course, the early problems with the Humax presaged it falling to disuse, such as the response to the remote ranging from non-responsive to sluggish to double-triggering commands. Though current software running on it seems to have corrected these problems without having to send it in for repair (who can part with a TiVo for repair?), it finally fell to disuse when I could reliably record HD content with the Series3.
Even now, I'm more interested in using my Mac to capture HD content over Firewire and burning to 3x DVD or capturing anamorphically down-converted HD content from the Series3 for DVD.
floppies that where calculators in disguised. Sheesh! Next thing you know they'll be making clothes-washing machines that look like TVs, thermometers that look like cellular phones, and face-washing machines that look like hot water pots.
When criminals start using this, the cops will HAVE to use infrared cameras to track and apprehend suspects. But what if they don't show up on infrared at all?
Apart from the sci-fi reference, is this substance black across all wavelengths or just visible ones? Could it be used to further augment the undetectability of stealth aircraft to radar?
Or, if you don't have a fence or wall around your property and no signage to that effect, how am I to know I'm supposed to know I'm to stay off your lawn, old ma-- er, I mean, Your Honor?
So it isn't inspired by the movie Paycheck?
"This is the exact same technology?"
"Not the exact same technology, no. Ultimately, I decided to reconceive some of it. I never liked the way the monitor looked. And then it occurred to me... who needs it?"
As far as I can Comcast hit a bullseye on an explicit criminal statute. Forget about FCC diddling over whether this was or was not "reasonable network management", as far as I can tell this should be a damn CRIMINAL case. Assuming that the imprisonment penalties can't really be applied to a non-corporeal corporation, what is the "fine under this title" repeatedly referenced in subsection (c)?
Yes, you're absolutely right. You can solve this problem by sacrificing some of the mobility you were trying to gain by purchasing this machine. Thank you for that enlightening bit of wisdom. You want to tether two USB devices and I'm out of line for suggesting a hub?
There are USB hubs that don't require a power connection. And if the Mac Mini is any indication, I expect there will be USB hubs designed specifically for the MacBook Air too and soon that blend in with the contours like a blister at the port without any snagging corners. Some may even take standard batteries for when you need to hook up more than one USB-powered device.
There are also ways to share USB devices over a wireless network, but you can look them up for yourself.
software is using a 32-bit (more specifically, 31 bits plus a sign bit) integer type Um, why was it not an unsigned int? Was the need for negative time greater than having an epoch spanning to 2106?
I hate to 'rail' against Grandma here, but, in other people's defense, MOST people out there don't need a floppy drive, nor a modem for their laptops. Flash drives, cdroms, and wireless/ethernet seem to be the standards for today, and those all work well with most all laptops, Apple's included. I know of one grandmother who got a copy of Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" for Christmas, and her computer met all the requirements for running that OS save one: it had a CD-ROM drive installed. The OS was on DVD-ROM.
from the how-hard-is-a-new-gmail-address dept. If it isn't hard enough, I'm sure it'll soon contain messages recommending substances to make it harder.
There would also be a significant drop in software development, the profit incentive being undercut. Or an increase in production and innovation so as to keep having fresh new product available rather than coming up with one big idea and raking in free money for the rest of your life plus 75 years.
By overly protecting the profit motive you kill the motivation to continue to innovate.
In the computing field, copyright duration can reduced to only 10 years with no ill effect because by 10 years it would be obsolete anyway, of interest only to collectors and other historians. Cut it back to 5 years or less and you'll see far more rapid advancement in the state of the art.
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Carter: What I wouldn't give to be a fly on that boardroom wall.
Bryce: Well, you can if you like.
Carter: What?
Cheviot:
Carter: Bryce, what is this?
Bryce: Oh, it's a bug. Well, a fly, actually. It was my graduation project when I was eleven.
Carter: A mechanical fly?
You won't get a scheming robot until you get a robot that has suspicion. Until then, as long as there are only trusting robots to exploit, there's no need for the lying robots to evolve the ability to scheme.
I'd next split up the lying group of robots and set up two more experiments: one with two lying camps and another with two lying camps and one trusting camp. Maybe a third with two trusting camps and two lying camps. Goals: evolve suspicion and selective deception.
Though the bells only rang because I'd watched the DVD of Miracle Mile so recently.
But then, you could also compare Cloverfield to The Birds, especially the lack of explanation of cause and lack of a final victory.
It's a far too common conceit in movies that, if something isn't on camera, the characters are oblivious to it (such as people walking down an empty street suddenly notice a dead body directly in front of them when they're only 10 feet away from it, or like Hud turning around for the creature's extreme close-up) unless it is a Spielburgian moment where the camera stays on a reaction of a character to something for a pregnant pause before the reveal by spinning the camera or having them run away, leading whatever it is to the front of the camera.
Even the audio track engages in trickery like this, so that you don't hear a helicopter landing next to the camera until it is on screen, or the first reveal of the sights and sounds of the War Room in WarGames.
Brick it forward.
You can get 2-siders for nearly a dime a dozen.
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First they take away your Liberty, then they take away your Pursuit of Happiness, then they take away your Life.
I still have my Humax DVD-R TiVo, but it too has fallen to disuse. I don't even use it to play back DVDs, even though the 8-second replay option is something I've wanted in a DVD player. Its burner has only been used to burn episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on a lark of archiving a full year "because I can", until I missed an episode due to expiration. Now there's no point: I can do a much better job using my Mac.
Its limitations today are that I can't burn podcasts (without laundering them through the analog hole), I can't transfer HD programming to it (even just as a backing store), and it will only burn content it records itself. I can transfer anything (except podcasts) to my desktop computer and burn them as files for off-line storage, but I can't burn video as files using the Humax TiVo. And no editing features either. Not even trimming the start or end.
Of course, the early problems with the Humax presaged it falling to disuse, such as the response to the remote ranging from non-responsive to sluggish to double-triggering commands. Though current software running on it seems to have corrected these problems without having to send it in for repair (who can part with a TiVo for repair?), it finally fell to disuse when I could reliably record HD content with the Series3.
Even now, I'm more interested in using my Mac to capture HD content over Firewire and burning to 3x DVD or capturing anamorphically down-converted HD content from the Series3 for DVD.
Apart from the sci-fi reference, is this substance black across all wavelengths or just visible ones? Could it be used to further augment the undetectability of stealth aircraft to radar?
So according to that wiki page, if I were immortal, after 420 years I'd be half-blind?
Or, if you don't have a fence or wall around your property and no signage to that effect, how am I to know I'm supposed to know I'm to stay off your lawn, old ma-- er, I mean, Your Honor?
"Not the exact same technology, no. Ultimately, I decided to reconceive some of it. I never liked the way the monitor looked. And then it occurred to me... who needs it?"
I'm sure it doesn't help to have Mark Zuckerberg and Leslie Stahl both call it "Scrabble" on 60 Minutes last Sunday.
But unless Hasbro got wind of it before it aired, it wasn't the trigger for the notice. Another version of this story was on the Firehose last week.
There are USB hubs that don't require a power connection. And if the Mac Mini is any indication, I expect there will be USB hubs designed specifically for the MacBook Air too and soon that blend in with the contours like a blister at the port without any snagging corners. Some may even take standard batteries for when you need to hook up more than one USB-powered device.
There are also ways to share USB devices over a wireless network, but you can look them up for yourself.
Reasonable limits aren't.
By overly protecting the profit motive you kill the motivation to continue to innovate.
In the computing field, copyright duration can reduced to only 10 years with no ill effect because by 10 years it would be obsolete anyway, of interest only to collectors and other historians. Cut it back to 5 years or less and you'll see far more rapid advancement in the state of the art.