I loved the matrix and thought it was great but it was not a intellectual movie. It was a lot of fun to watch with some fun ideas but the glaring science holes in the plot compleatly ruined any intellectual stimulation for me. And if you didn't see the holes just remember the laws of thermodynamics and think about it.
Yes it is our "elected representatives" & judges that make the laws. However our representaives in america are famous for their soundbite filled political speechs that don't really say anything. so we really don't know too much of what is going to happen when they go into office. When our "elected representatives" do go to propose or vote on new laws they are mainly getting there info from thinktanks and lobbyists. So in order for us to change anything not only do we have to vote for who we want but we have to shout to make ourselves heard above the tides of money in the form of lobbyists.
If you go to disney worlds web site www.disneyworld.com you can see that they have gone to just using some aliased text. They used to have the logo. They most definately have some new one in the works. thank god because that last one was really ugly.
Actors movments can be truely recorded and overlayed with 3d models for truely realistic movement.
If you could intersept the signals and redirect them you could have classic cyberpunk VR. Or just a virtual keyboard so you don't have to worry about carpal tunnel.
Or you could program your body to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night so you don't have to wake up and do it yourself.
I suggest you ignore all those replies that think your letter sounded "kewl". If you send them this letter you will only sound unprofessional and childlike. Though they may not sue you this is not pushing the balance in your favor. Your letter should be intellegent, professional and firm. You can come across as if you are looking down on them for being stupid if you just point out their errors in an intellegent non-insulting way.
According to Discover: The 1979 resolution states that the moon and its natural resources are the common heritage of mankind and that the moon shall not be used for military purposes. It also declares that any benefits derived from the exploitation of the moon's natural resources will be shared, "whereby the interests and needs of the developing countries, as well as the efforts of those countries which have contributed either directly or indirectly to the exploration of the moon, shall be given special consideration." Only problem with the Moon Treaty is that the United States and the other space-faring civilizations refused to sign it.
According to the The Artimis Project: The Moon is a venue of "lex nullus"; that is, it is identical in legal status to the high seas, meaning that nobody can own it and everybody can go there.
So according to the American government Mr. Dennis M. Hope has the right to sell property. Something tells me when it gets time to start doing things with the moon and other planets we will be doing it on an international front and these things will hold no weight what so ever.
First off I don't know if this Mosaic thing is good or bad since no one knows how it works and what criteria it uses.
Ok granted metal detecters can be useful but what he is saying is that when our kids grow older they will no longer feel threatened by their loss of privacy. When they become adults and get a job they will see nothing wrong with having the company doing psychological and physical tests on them during the interview. They will no longer feel the threat of having everything they do be tracked by the smart ID card they use not only for purchases but for access to their work, home, car, etc. These systems that will make it easier for use to do teh things we do will also make it easier for anyone to know what we do. They will look at us as overreacting old fools when we refuse to take any job that requires a psychological or physical test.
This is already happening by the way - companies that have no real reason to have such tests are making their employees take them. My moms company has recently started this. The new employees have to take a psychological test and a physical exam where they are given a normal health check up and are made to do jumping jacks and push ups. What are these companys doing with this information? What's stopping them from handing it out to insurance companys?
I am married and we are planning children. I for one do not want my children to become mindless cows not aware of the killing hammer behing the next turn.
Who cares that they are trying to teach christian morally in a misdirected silly way. Who really gets suddenly converted to jesus by listening to a "christian" rock band? Same thing applys here.
EXCEPT - Even if I was christian I would not want a child of mine to automatically assume that angels are all white and blond. ie. The most holy people are all aryans. Weeeee talk about your innane morally. Why couldn't they have made the angels blue or something? Or are they stuck in that traditional white males are the true chosen ones thing too. I wonder if they portray God or Jesus as a white anglo-saxon male too. Oh yeah while I am ranting - it's a good thing those puny little female angels have the big strong male archangels to back them up. Will there eventually be a plugin to make all the demons look jewish or black? Maybe we can have a plugin that turns it into 1940 Germany too?
Oh and another thing - why is it that whenever/. has any sort of religous article the posts always resort to: "Christians are bad remember the Inquistion... No their not! Christians are people too... Well then, organized religon is bad" and why do those same tired posts get moderated so high? We should be debating the game and how its cultural impact not religon as a whole.
Where do you think the money for your Cell Phone goes?
Cell Phone companys don't have their own phone network. Someone has to pay for the connection when your call gets connected to a Cell Phone Node and then gets connected to a local phone system. Part of that per minute rate you pay goes to the local phone company.
Actually modem users don't always get the best end of the stick when it comes to phone system upgrades.
They recently upgraded the phone system where my parents live to digital routers. This was done to allow for more phone lines and allow for a clearer line. However their modem took a drop in speed because now their phone lines get converted from analog to digital and then back to analog when it goes to their isp service. this results in slightly more line noise and a reduction in speed.
So if you are a modem user and you are in a area with digital routers (most of the US soon) your modem is slower then it should be because of the improvements that the Phone Companies made for the Voice users.
Lem is wonderful - virtually nobody knows who he is but he is one of the best. "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub" would have to be my favorite of his. Terry Gilliam had to have read this book before the movie Brazil was made. The fruitless bureaucracy gone mad is very prominent in this book but it goes far beyond Brazil's.
For instance, over the next 100 years, we are expected to lose our pinky toe.. Why? Cuz to be honest we don't need it..
100 years? please - if this really does happen it will take at least a 100 THOUSAND years. Unless it becomes really fashionable to only date people who have four toes. However useless that toe is, we and most of our pals in the animal kingdom still and will continue to have all five for a long long time.
Parents may -say- they want "better" kids, but in truth they want kids who are "normal" (read: just like them, only obedient and subservient to the "right" people, where the "right people" are chosen by the parents and usually =ARE= the parents.)
Yeah and? obedientcy and subserviency are traits that I seriously doubt we can ever geneticly program into a child. Most personality traits (creativity and inteligence included) rely more the result of parenting skills not genetics.
I am not very scared of any genetic superiority unless you count the rich becomeing somewhat healthier then the rest of us. Big deal they normally are since they get better access to health care anyway. And unhealthy people have been very successfull too. Sometimes it makes them more so since they had such a long hill to climb.
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Though I don't know what that link has to do with anything it just seems like that was want s/he was pointing to
use the following instead www.cubicmetercrystal.com
And don't get me started on total recall.
Yes it is our "elected representatives" & judges that make the laws. However our representaives in america are famous for their soundbite filled political speechs that don't really say anything. so we really don't know too much of what is going to happen when they go into office. When our "elected representatives" do go to propose or vote on new laws they are mainly getting there info from thinktanks and lobbyists. So in order for us to change anything not only do we have to vote for who we want but we have to shout to make ourselves heard above the tides of money in the form of lobbyists.
If you go to disney worlds web site www.disneyworld.com you can see that they have gone to just using some aliased text. They used to have the logo. They most definately have some new one in the works. thank god because that last one was really ugly.
Yes that was genius. I though the site was OK not anything really funny. But that song made the funniest thing since sliced white bream
I think what he is talking about tranfering is not the sound but the actual digital file.
When you can use it to control a virtual one?
Actors movments can be truely recorded and overlayed with 3d models for truely realistic movement.
If you could intersept the signals and redirect them you could have classic cyberpunk VR. Or just a virtual keyboard so you don't have to worry about carpal tunnel.
Or you could program your body to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night so you don't have to wake up and do it yourself.
I think all children with AD&D should be medicated ;)
All we have to do is make tinfoil hats a fashion statement and we will be fine.
I suggest you ignore all those replies that think your letter sounded "kewl". If you send them this letter you will only sound unprofessional and childlike. Though they may not sue you this is not pushing the balance in your favor. Your letter should be intellegent, professional and firm. You can come across as if you are looking down on them for being stupid if you just point out their errors in an intellegent non-insulting way.
anywho, good luck
Nice try at an analogy but your wrong. Amiga is actually just a friend who is female. "Girlfriend" as in a romantic/lover/whatever is: Novia
Yeah and just like a lot of those test ban treaties the big boys (ie. US and other spacefaring countries) refused to sign the moon treaty.
Only problem with the Moon Treaty is that the United States and the other space-faring civilizations refused to sign it.
According to the The Artimis Project:
The Moon is a venue of "lex nullus"; that is, it is identical in legal status to the high seas, meaning that nobody can own it and everybody can go there.
So according to the American government Mr. Dennis M. Hope has the right to sell property. Something tells me when it gets time to start doing things with the moon and other planets we will be doing it on an international front and these things will hold no weight what so ever.
Ok granted metal detecters can be useful but what he is saying is that when our kids grow older they will no longer feel threatened by their loss of privacy. When they become adults and get a job they will see nothing wrong with having the company doing psychological and physical tests on them during the interview. They will no longer feel the threat of having everything they do be tracked by the smart ID card they use not only for purchases but for access to their work, home, car, etc. These systems that will make it easier for use to do teh things we do will also make it easier for anyone to know what we do. They will look at us as overreacting old fools when we refuse to take any job that requires a psychological or physical test.
This is already happening by the way - companies that have no real reason to have such tests are making their employees take them. My moms company has recently started this. The new employees have to take a psychological test and a physical exam where they are given a normal health check up and are made to do jumping jacks and push ups. What are these companys doing with this information? What's stopping them from handing it out to insurance companys?
I am married and we are planning children. I for one do not want my children to become mindless cows not aware of the killing hammer behing the next turn.
EXCEPT - Even if I was christian I would not want a child of mine to automatically assume that angels are all white and blond. ie. The most holy people are all aryans. Weeeee talk about your innane morally. Why couldn't they have made the angels blue or something? Or are they stuck in that traditional white males are the true chosen ones thing too. I wonder if they portray God or Jesus as a white anglo-saxon male too. Oh yeah while I am ranting - it's a good thing those puny little female angels have the big strong male archangels to back them up. Will there eventually be a plugin to make all the demons look jewish or black? Maybe we can have a plugin that turns it into 1940 Germany too?
Oh and another thing - why is it that whenever
anywho - head louse signing off
Satan is dead - Quintron, The amazing spellcaster and one man band
Cell Phone companys don't have their own phone network. Someone has to pay for the connection when your call gets connected to a Cell Phone Node and then gets connected to a local phone system. Part of that per minute rate you pay goes to the local phone company.
They recently upgraded the phone system where my parents live to digital routers. This was done to allow for more phone lines and allow for a clearer line. However their modem took a drop in speed because now their phone lines get converted from analog to digital and then back to analog when it goes to their isp service. this results in slightly more line noise and a reduction in speed.
So if you are a modem user and you are in a area with digital routers (most of the US soon) your modem is slower then it should be because of the improvements that the Phone Companies made for the Voice users.
Lem is wonderful - virtually nobody knows who he is but he is one of the best. "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub" would have to be my favorite of his. Terry Gilliam had to have read this book before the movie Brazil was made. The fruitless bureaucracy gone mad is very prominent in this book but it goes far beyond Brazil's.
That's not counting Sound - touch - smell - taste - kinesthetics.
So in order to live up to most of those Sci Fi novels most Slashdotters read, we need much bandwidth/speed as I can get.
Just like anyone can start there own
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For instance, over the next 100 years, we are expected to lose our pinky toe.. Why? Cuz to be honest we don't need it..
100 years? please - if this really does happen it will take at least a 100 THOUSAND years. Unless it becomes really fashionable to only date people who have four toes. However useless that toe is, we and most of our pals in the animal kingdom still and will continue to have all five for a long long time.
Yeah and? obedientcy and subserviency are traits that I seriously doubt we can ever geneticly program into a child. Most personality traits (creativity and inteligence included) rely more the result of parenting skills not genetics.
I am not very scared of any genetic superiority unless you count the rich becomeing somewhat healthier then the rest of us. Big deal they normally are since they get better access to health care anyway. And unhealthy people have been very successfull too. Sometimes it makes them more so since they had such a long hill to climb.