What does the fry quote have to do with anything? A better quote is:
Brannigan: "What the hell is that thing?"
Kif: "It appears to be the mother ship."
Brannigan: "Then what did we just blow up?"
Kif: "The Hubble telescope."
I may be tying up neurons remembering that, but at least they're retaining something good.:p
They brought it into the cargo bay of one of the shuttles back when they had to give it the corrective optics. Assuming the shuttles ever are allowed to fly again it wouldn't be that hard to bring it down.
* Notices that for no reason that makes real sense Devo's Freedom of Choice is playing in his brain. *
Oh wait, that's XMMS. I can't always tell the difference. What was I talking about now? Oh, right. Microsoft.
If breaking free of a giant company from another country that charges you too much for software that doesn't work then I for one welcome our new freedom-mongering overlords.
I don't want my music on fingernail sized cards. I'd so lose those damn things.
As for DRM, that's a real possibility. Though, in all of our experience, how long does music industry DRM usually last against the internet.;)
Why worry about robotic arms? If they can come up with some sort of tactile feedback system it would be relatively straightforward to use the system as a replacement for the defunct nervous system and have the patient control their own limbs.
Since I don't know if death brings anything besides nothingness I'll take the extra year and a half. If I was created by some timeless critter then it's not gonna mind waiting a little longer to explain the universe to me.
You talk as if this would be used without telling the patient it was experimental.
The way I see it something like this won't be fully tested for years. Until then the patient should get the following choice:
"You have three months to live. We have a new, untested treatment which seems promising, but we can make no guarantees that it will work and won't kill you. Do you want to try it?"
With terminal patients does it really matter if side effects develop is a few years? Without the treatment they'd be dead in a few months anyway. Might as well just see what happens.
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Who said anything about clothing? They'll just grab you off the street, tattoo the circuit onto the back of your head, and nueralize you. Actually, who says thay haven't already done this?
Easy enough to get other formats. Run the stupid AACs through FAAD and get a nice WAV.
Of course, if you encode that to mp3 you're gonna take a quality hit but it's something.
"Bitch bitch. Moan moan. Slashdot isn't a nationalist pisshole like the American news."
Get over it. Most of what you've been told by Fox, MSNBC, etc is a lie. Don't expect it to fly on a site populated by angry nerds.
A story like this is gonna grab everyone's attention. Does anyone else expect CD sales to plummit nationwide as people hear this. (Too bad that CD sales for non RIAA labels will probably fall too since people don't know the difference.)
But seriously, when you have Fox News, the channel whose main purpose is getting my idiot countrymen to go along with some really stupid governmental policy spinning for the forces of good you know something big is gonna happen.;)
Thanks to my adware-proof OS and my popup resistent browser the most attention I have to give to this problem is to gloat about my superiority.
What? You say this sets a precident for spam?
What? Despite my computational superiority I'm single and a struggling student?
Damn. Now I'm not superior anymore. I'll stop gloating.
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Brannigan: "What the hell is that thing?"
Kif: "It appears to be the mother ship."
Brannigan: "Then what did we just blow up?"
Kif: "The Hubble telescope."
I may be tying up neurons remembering that, but at least they're retaining something good. :p
But clever uses for space junk don't result in checks written to "campaign donators." Isn't that why we went to war in the first place?
They brought it into the cargo bay of one of the shuttles back when they had to give it the corrective optics. Assuming the shuttles ever are allowed to fly again it wouldn't be that hard to bring it down.
Well that didn't make sense. Ignore me. I'm an insomniac.
Oh wait, that's XMMS. I can't always tell the difference. What was I talking about now? Oh, right. Microsoft.
If breaking free of a giant company from another country that charges you too much for software that doesn't work then I for one welcome our new freedom-mongering overlords.
I don't want my music on fingernail sized cards. I'd so lose those damn things. As for DRM, that's a real possibility. Though, in all of our experience, how long does music industry DRM usually last against the internet. ;)
Why worry about robotic arms? If they can come up with some sort of tactile feedback system it would be relatively straightforward to use the system as a replacement for the defunct nervous system and have the patient control their own limbs.
With such um, motivated oposition I'm glad that we have IBM's ninja attack lawers on our side.
Since I don't know if death brings anything besides nothingness I'll take the extra year and a half. If I was created by some timeless critter then it's not gonna mind waiting a little longer to explain the universe to me.
You talk as if this would be used without telling the patient it was experimental. The way I see it something like this won't be fully tested for years. Until then the patient should get the following choice: "You have three months to live. We have a new, untested treatment which seems promising, but we can make no guarantees that it will work and won't kill you. Do you want to try it?"
With terminal patients does it really matter if side effects develop is a few years? Without the treatment they'd be dead in a few months anyway. Might as well just see what happens.
Who said anything about clothing? They'll just grab you off the street, tattoo the circuit onto the back of your head, and nueralize you. Actually, who says thay haven't already done this?
It's "Bite my shiny metal ass." If you're going to post something Futuramaesque at least get the catchphrases right.
Easy enough to get other formats. Run the stupid AACs through FAAD and get a nice WAV. Of course, if you encode that to mp3 you're gonna take a quality hit but it's something.
"Bitch bitch. Moan moan. Slashdot isn't a nationalist pisshole like the American news." Get over it. Most of what you've been told by Fox, MSNBC, etc is a lie. Don't expect it to fly on a site populated by angry nerds.
A story like this is gonna grab everyone's attention. Does anyone else expect CD sales to plummit nationwide as people hear this. (Too bad that CD sales for non RIAA labels will probably fall too since people don't know the difference.) But seriously, when you have Fox News, the channel whose main purpose is getting my idiot countrymen to go along with some really stupid governmental policy spinning for the forces of good you know something big is gonna happen. ;)
Thanks to my adware-proof OS and my popup resistent browser the most attention I have to give to this problem is to gloat about my superiority. What? You say this sets a precident for spam? What? Despite my computational superiority I'm single and a struggling student? Damn. Now I'm not superior anymore. I'll stop gloating.