1) Military jobs, if you think that AI is going to be good enough to have computers acting as soldiers any time soon then you either have a really unrealistic view of AI develop or you have an incredibly disrespect for what it takes to be a soldier.
AI? Feh.
if ( helmet_mounted_rfid_tag != Friendly_PGP_Code) {
while target_not_dead() {
shoot_the_bastid();
}
}
...with helmet_rfid easily replaced with socks_rfid or dogtag_rfid or left_rear_molar_rfid.
With lessons from the first gulf war, we know humans target and shoot friendlies with less positive identification. And don't get me started on LA cops...
> If you live under a rock, Strong Bad is freakin' awesome. You can buy it here."
>Right. Because if I have no idea what Strong Bad is, I've been living under a rock.
No, I believe what he means is that only if you live under a rock will you find SB "freakin' awesome".
Otherwise, you'll probably just find it very humorous like me.
Also, isn't 'f**king fanboys' a contradiction, or do you suggesting they expand their viewing parties into NAMBLA meetings?
> And what this review failed to mention, was the detail of the hair.
Big-assed spoiler
Violet walked out of the stasis restraint thingy when she wanted to. That suggests she could do the same when Syndrome froze them at the end and took off with Jack Jack. Nothing in the movie suggested it wasn't a completely mental power and she didn't need physical movement to perform her trick.
> And what this review failed to mention, was the detail of the hair.
yeah, I found my attention to the story did drop a bit when i got lost looking at Mrs. I's, Edna's or someone elses hair. The wavyness, the sheen, it was amazing. I also got lost a few times in the water.
Visually stunning, and full-on entertaining to boot.
>Octopuses and Squid hunt using binocular vision)
Meaning it was a good thing that primates evolved intelligence and not cephalopods, as they'd have been eliminated this century due to highspeed rear-enders because they could only focus on the car far up ahead?
> for SSO to reach orbit (sustainable orbit), they'll need a rocket that's 25 times more powerful
or two rockets that are 12.5x as powerful, or a tri-motor configuration of engines that are 8.3x as powerful, or a quad config thats....
Heck, guys do you really be the Idiot remembered by history as the "guy who made mars alive?"
Sure, why not? Finding life would be nifty for the scientists, but for maximum profit who cares if a few rats and microbes get away? I say they hitch a ride on my starliner, make planetfall on the opposite side of the planet from me and work like crazy people before I work my way to their side carving large trenches in the planet.
As your school to install Software Update Services(SUS). Free to run on windows servers running IIS (also free).
Unfortunately, you need the server (not free) and CAL's (also not free) to use this product. In my classroom, we went with Samba for filesharing and authentication just for this reason.
Truly, tho, once you've installed a cron-job to execute yum -y update nightly you wish to God you could convert all the classroom boxes to Linux. Unfortunatly that's an administration directive ("they must know MS Word if they're going to be employable!" -).
*sigh*. It's the concepts of wp we are teaching (center, bold, select range, etc), not the specific button sequence of a specific program in which to do those commands. That's aping, not learning.
> PHB and privacy ya ya ya
*Siiighh*
Okay, I'm gonna lay this one to rest once and for all.
If you're afraid your PBH is spying on you, do the following: Give your balls or your ass a REALLY good scratch in your office. Then, grab the report he's been riding you for and go to his office. Hand it to him. If he grabs it, he isn't spying on you. If he says 'just put it on the desk', ask to borrow a pen to make a quick note on the report, then hand the pen back to him. If he doesn't take the pen, use it to write a quick resignation note and shake his hand for all the great years of service under him.
If he is none the wiser about the balls thing, you may want to tell him you've got a cold or something and he may want to wash his hands before eating.
And as a double-bonus, there's probably not even any natives for him to enslave!
Just a nit, but the natives weren't enslaved, they were slaughtered. The slaves were an import (tho I doubt very much my ancestors lost much sleep over how much they contributed to America's trade deficit at the time)
> No, the teachers have no idea what the students are doing on the computers
Well, I'm a teacher rignt now (at least for the next month or so) and I say WHOLEHEARTEDLY computers are very useful in the classroom.
However...
The current machines we have now are crap. Computers for classrooms are like driver's ed classes with Ford Excursions or h/s biology on human cadavers. Too much!
You wanna be rich? Invent some pdf reading,.doc,.xls and.ppt using, html viewing palmOS-like ruggetized textbook sized luggable for
for most devices, the wall warts WASTE more energy than the device even uses.
I'm not familiar with the term; 'wall wart'? Is this a power receptacle? If so, how does it waste power when nothing's plugged into it? Electricity doesn't evaporate like water out of an open pipe.
one must remember that a computer has no inherent moral standards: if someone (with sufficient "authority") tells it that it IS supposed to land in a building, it won't argue
But one has to assume a command like that will get the computer into a heated argument with the anti-collision system, during which the pilot can sneak in and land the plane.
The reporter writing the article saw something they didn't understand, and tried to dramatize it to a point it's totally removed from reality. There was no remote control, just automated data transfers of data that would normally be spoken then keypunched. I guess the reporter must be a/. regular....
I actually got a bit excited when i read this; living post 9/11 and all; this would be a nifty way of 'dead-man'-ing a plane such that if the correct responses aren't recieved from a crew, the plane becomes autonomous and lands in a large, pre-arranged empty airfield somewhere, or maybe they all go to Andrews AFB.
Have you looked into using a product like Deep Freeze? It locks the HDD down...
I'm looking to create a 2G partition on all the macines in my lab containing the Norton Ghost-created image of the machine's clean state, then creating some kind of boot manager that allows me to do the image re-install in a matter of minutes. Cheaper than site-licensing DeepFreeze.
Oooh, yeah, baby! Verruh nice. I especially loved the 'Reliant-cam' they used when the ship executed that top-roll to evade then target a pursuer. They did stuff in that episode (smaller ships dodging the capital ships, debris fields all around and none of that goofy 'fly thru your exploding target's fireball', what kind of dumb move is that? Wanna hit their residual dark matter?) I haven't seen on Trek since.
No, you cannot be The One, as I am The One. I think. Maybe I used to be The One, then there's was this temporary The One while I was on holiday, he started out as the Other One then filled in as The One while I was becoming One with myself in Belize, which I heard was a great place to find One's Self.
Anyway, I'm back. You could be terciary backup The One, but that would make you The Insignificant One. Unless you found six other One's lesser than yourself, then perhaps you'd be the Magnificent Seven. Two more and you might be Seven of Nine. Deputize a small city and you could be The One in a million. Open a discount nursery and you could be The One who's fern deserves another.
I'd almost agree with you, but then, it was the same with two-legged robots for decades then Asimo seemed to appear from almost nowhere, and apparently it works great
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>HOW ELSE DO YOU EXPLAIN BILLIONS SPENT WITH NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT!?!?
Well, Rumsfeld said it's because they had to fight with the army they were given and because war is messy.
1) Military jobs, if you think that AI is going to be good enough to have computers acting as soldiers any time soon then you either have a really unrealistic view of AI develop or you have an incredibly disrespect for what it takes to be a soldier.
...with helmet_rfid easily replaced with socks_rfid or dogtag_rfid or left_rear_molar_rfid.
AI? Feh.
if ( helmet_mounted_rfid_tag != Friendly_PGP_Code)
{
while target_not_dead()
{
shoot_the_bastid();
}
}
With lessons from the first gulf war, we know humans target and shoot friendlies with less positive identification. And don't get me started on LA cops...
> If you live under a rock, Strong Bad is freakin' awesome. You can buy it here."
>Right. Because if I have no idea what Strong Bad is, I've been living under a rock.
No, I believe what he means is that only if you live under a rock will you find SB "freakin' awesome".
Otherwise, you'll probably just find it very humorous like me.
Also, isn't 'f**king fanboys' a contradiction, or do you suggesting they expand their viewing parties into NAMBLA meetings?
> Glad T-rex didnt do the same.
Why? If that ol' lizard showed his face here around Detroit, we'd've shot his ass.
> I was thinking of something to the effect of "Do Democrats Defy Dinosaur Extinction Theories?"
Possible, as fundi-Republicans don't believe they existed (or at least they died out soon after Adam got kicked out of Eden roughly 6K years ago)
> And what this review failed to mention, was the detail of the hair.
Big-assed spoiler
Violet walked out of the stasis restraint thingy when she wanted to. That suggests she could do the same when Syndrome froze them at the end and took off with Jack Jack. Nothing in the movie suggested it wasn't a completely mental power and she didn't need physical movement to perform her trick.
> And what this review failed to mention, was the detail of the hair.
yeah, I found my attention to the story did drop a bit when i got lost looking at Mrs. I's, Edna's or someone elses hair. The wavyness, the sheen, it was amazing. I also got lost a few times in the water.
Visually stunning, and full-on entertaining to boot.
>Octopuses and Squid hunt using binocular vision) Meaning it was a good thing that primates evolved intelligence and not cephalopods, as they'd have been eliminated this century due to highspeed rear-enders because they could only focus on the car far up ahead?
> by the time something like this actually gets implemented, wimax will be in the beginning stages of mass adoption.
Okay, so, if you are an SF'r, you need to Contact your mayor and make sure his group knows about this tech before any contracts are signed.
Y'know, *representative* gov and all.
> for SSO to reach orbit (sustainable orbit), they'll need a rocket that's 25 times more powerful or two rockets that are 12.5x as powerful, or a tri-motor configuration of engines that are 8.3x as powerful, or a quad config thats....
Heck, guys do you really be the Idiot remembered by history as the "guy who made mars alive?"
Sure, why not? Finding life would be nifty for the scientists, but for maximum profit who cares if a few rats and microbes get away? I say they hitch a ride on my starliner, make planetfall on the opposite side of the planet from me and work like crazy people before I work my way to their side carving large trenches in the planet.
As your school to install Software Update Services(SUS). Free to run on windows servers running IIS (also free).
Unfortunately, you need the server (not free) and CAL's (also not free) to use this product. In my classroom, we went with Samba for filesharing and authentication just for this reason.
Truly, tho, once you've installed a cron-job to execute yum -y update nightly you wish to God you could convert all the classroom boxes to Linux. Unfortunatly that's an administration directive ("they must know MS Word if they're going to be employable!" -).
*sigh*. It's the concepts of wp we are teaching (center, bold, select range, etc), not the specific button sequence of a specific program in which to do those commands. That's aping, not learning.
> PHB and privacy ya ya ya
*Siiighh*
Okay, I'm gonna lay this one to rest once and for all.
If you're afraid your PBH is spying on you, do the following: Give your balls or your ass a REALLY good scratch in your office. Then, grab the report he's been riding you for and go to his office. Hand it to him. If he grabs it, he isn't spying on you. If he says 'just put it on the desk', ask to borrow a pen to make a quick note on the report, then hand the pen back to him. If he doesn't take the pen, use it to write a quick resignation note and shake his hand for all the great years of service under him.
If he is none the wiser about the balls thing, you may want to tell him you've got a cold or something and he may want to wash his hands before eating.
And as a double-bonus, there's probably not even any natives for him to enslave!
Just a nit, but the natives weren't enslaved, they were slaughtered. The slaves were an import (tho I doubt very much my ancestors lost much sleep over how much they contributed to America's trade deficit at the time)
> No, the teachers have no idea what the students are doing on the computers .doc, .xls and .ppt using, html viewing palmOS-like ruggetized textbook sized luggable for
Well, I'm a teacher rignt now (at least for the next month or so) and I say WHOLEHEARTEDLY computers are very useful in the classroom.
However...
The current machines we have now are crap. Computers for classrooms are like driver's ed classes with Ford Excursions or h/s biology on human cadavers. Too much! You wanna be rich? Invent some pdf reading,
You cannot download your email on a plane in any case.
According to this, yes you can.
for most devices, the wall warts WASTE more energy than the device even uses.
I'm not familiar with the term; 'wall wart'? Is this a power receptacle? If so, how does it waste power when nothing's plugged into it? Electricity doesn't evaporate like water out of an open pipe.
one must remember that a computer has no inherent moral standards: if someone (with sufficient "authority") tells it that it IS supposed to land in a building, it won't argue
But one has to assume a command like that will get the computer into a heated argument with the anti-collision system, during which the pilot can sneak in and land the plane.
The reporter writing the article saw something they didn't understand, and tried to dramatize it to a point it's totally removed from reality. There was no remote control, just automated data transfers of data that would normally be spoken then keypunched. I guess the reporter must be a /. regular....
I actually got a bit excited when i read this; living post 9/11 and all; this would be a nifty way of 'dead-man'-ing a plane such that if the correct responses aren't recieved from a crew, the plane becomes autonomous and lands in a large, pre-arranged empty airfield somewhere, or maybe they all go to Andrews AFB.
Nifty.
Have you looked into using a product like Deep Freeze? It locks the HDD down... I'm looking to create a 2G partition on all the macines in my lab containing the Norton Ghost-created image of the machine's clean state, then creating some kind of boot manager that allows me to do the image re-install in a matter of minutes. Cheaper than site-licensing DeepFreeze.
> order
Nope, still wrong.
1. Middle East Jersey 2. Quebec 3. North Pottsylvania
> last DS9's
Oooh, yeah, baby! Verruh nice. I especially loved the 'Reliant-cam' they used when the ship executed that top-roll to evade then target a pursuer. They did stuff in that episode (smaller ships dodging the capital ships, debris fields all around and none of that goofy 'fly thru your exploding target's fireball', what kind of dumb move is that? Wanna hit their residual dark matter?) I haven't seen on Trek since.
Can I be Neo?
No, you cannot be The One, as I am The One. I think. Maybe I used to be The One, then there's was this temporary The One while I was on holiday, he started out as the Other One then filled in as The One while I was becoming One with myself in Belize, which I heard was a great place to find One's Self.
Anyway, I'm back. You could be terciary backup The One, but that would make you The Insignificant One. Unless you found six other One's lesser than yourself, then perhaps you'd be the Magnificent Seven. Two more and you might be Seven of Nine. Deputize a small city and you could be The One in a million. Open a discount nursery and you could be The One who's fern deserves another.
White flags up yet?
but they will never materialize
I'd almost agree with you, but then, it was the same with two-legged robots for decades then Asimo seemed to appear from almost nowhere, and apparently it works great
nefarious characters to create some very large explosions
Screw the bad guys with some nukes, I vote 'NIMBY' on those death-trap grain elevators!!
Or, at least anyone with storage sheds full of fertilizer.