The problem is that "BBC Apologizes To Whom Star" really isnt grammatical, and it would be a bitch to make it fit, since there's no real way using just those morphemes.:)
He might as well say, "I don't like people having discussions." After all, isn't that what a blog is? Me talking about what's going on in my life, or in my mind, in a soliloquy of sorts? It's not supposed to be a fucking library, it's a collection of things that people feel the need to write down, so that other people can read it and learn what's happening. Complete apples/oranges scenario.
The gentleman who heads the ALA is perhaps nervous for some reason, otherwise he wouldn't have a need to attack blogs as if they were comparable to libraries. Might as well just say he hates boats because they don't fly.
In order for these renders to be accurate, the pictures taken would need to be elevation maps. If the changes in surface brightness were due to material, texture, or shadow, rather than due to changes in elevation, how is that in any way representative of the surface of Titan?
If you take a picture of a mountain from space, half will be nice and bright, the other half with be cloaked in dark, but obviously there isn't a gigantic plateau with a huge pit right next to it!
Change in brightness is only useful if the image is an elevation map, and we don't know if the raw data were indeed elevation maps, so the images could have mountains where there are none, and MOST LIKELY do!
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Correction, it was at the MacWorld conf..
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Listen to Leo Laporte's CES podcast. Leo and Kevin announce a Grand Alliance of former TechTV cast and friends to make genuine OldSchool TechTV-type content.
http://www.leoville.com/blog/
LONG LIVE THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Would it not make more sense to prefer augmentation, for it is MAN'S achievement, MAN'S success, and MAN'S work to take pride in, not something happenstance? What pride can be taken in the luck of the draw? What have you to be proud of, when you have done nothing but been left victim of evolution, given a body inferior to your passions and desires, simply because of bad luck? And what greater way to be proud of mankind's accomplishments than to BECOME it's accomplishment?
I think you just fear being dehumanized. But you shouldn't. Machine's are the most human things there are, for they are the children of humanities efforts, not nature's. Nothing can be more human than that which nature has failed to do but we have. Nothing. Every cyborg, every AI, everything we create, THEY are who and what we are. Not our bodies, not are flesh and bone, that's incidental.
OH, and in case you're looking for some good resources, check out PlayHookey:
http://www.play-hookey.com/digital/
Get stuff there; counters, flip flops, adders.. Imagine those kids building a calculator or something out of mechanical relays and how proud of themselves they would be to recreate with their own minds the history of the modern computer.
..Noone has mentioned it. C'mon, this is Slashdot! Why hasn't anyone mentioned teaching the kids about logic gates?!
Get some relays and such and teach them the basics of digital logic by building electromechanical logic gates. Infact, show them just the basics or how the relay works, etc. and try to get them to think about how to make it do what it needs to do. They're kids, they've got imagination out the wazoo, they can think of lots of neat things. And it gets them interested in how computers work, rather than just playing video games on the things.
I would like to comment on your critique of Neuromancer's setting. You say that Gibson's view of Japanese culture permeating all things Western is dated, I wonder if you've ever looked around to see the countless number of Japanese-produced electronics, the countless number of kids and young adults hopelessly in love with anime, the devotion of a large portion of Cartoon Network, the preeminent network that deals with animated media, to anime. Japanese culture does permeate our very existance, however it's Japanese pop-culture. We have taken to Japanese culture much the way the Japanese have taken to foreign cultures: They see something they like, and take it for themselves, changing it and making it somehow less foreign, yet distinctively not native.
Have Japanese ways and customs become defacto standards for America? Not really. But how many Slashdotters can truly say that they are not influenced by Japan and Japanese cultures, when we here have links from the Slashdot mainpage to AnimeFu, and we have an entire topic devoted to Anime? The old big 3 video game system companies are Japanese, and what Nintendo and Sony do in that arena innumerable people hang upon.
Is it valid, then, to say that Gibson's prediction that Japanese culture would permeate all things Western is false? No, he was quite correct. But it is true that his vision of exactly what would permeate the West was not. Instead of customs and traditions that the Japanese themselves have long since relegated to the history books and niche markets, it is pop-sensations, the ever present anime and videogames, the things that the Japanese themselves have become enthralled with. Those are the permeations into the West, and because of their ubiquity, we, like the characters in Neuromancer, have forgotten that they are indeed foreign to us.
"To ink" is a verb, as in "ink a comic book", even though ink is a noun. All languages have morphological derivation protocol, in one form or another; in English we happen to have two forms of it: The first is an analytical/isolating method in which we add "to make" in from of the noun, as in "to make obsolete". We commonly use this first form in a fragmented way, by inserting the object of the action within the verb, as in "to make motherboards obsolete", however the phrase "the make obsolete motherboards" is a perfectly valid form. However, it's obviously confusing, and hyphens would clarify the meaning (ie, make-obsolete), as would an article before the object (tho "to make obsolete these mothers" sounds very 19th century). English also has a second form, which is well known and widely used. It's more of a demisynthetization, however there is no addition of prefixes or suffixes. It does include the isolating "to" as a mandatory preposition in the infinitive form, however, as in "to obsolete". I think your real issue should have been with the fact that there already is a synthetic verb version of "obsolete", specifically "obsolesce".
I would point out that Native Americans caused the extinction of various species through over hunting, and that the myth of them living in harmony with nature is quite false.
The same way your eyes can detect light at much higher frequencies (red light at 650nm is about 460THz). The transistor OSCILLATES at 500GHz, that doesn't mean that we don't have things sensitive to 500GHz. Shit, we've been using that frequency for radar since WWII. XRay machines work at a few petahertz or more. Oscillation isn't the same thing as reactiveness.
Perhaps you people should try researching your shit a bit more. Neutrons don't come from nowhere you know. They come from fusion. Thats one of the main ways we know when we DO achieve fusion, both in little IEC reactors like this and in big TOKOMAKs like the JET Torus. Perhaps if you RTFA and then LTFS [learn the fucking science] you might not look like the typical clueless slashdotter. Thanks.
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The problem is that "BBC Apologizes To Whom Star" really isnt grammatical, and it would be a bitch to make it fit, since there's no real way using just those morphemes. :)
He might as well say, "I don't like people having discussions." After all, isn't that what a blog is? Me talking about what's going on in my life, or in my mind, in a soliloquy of sorts? It's not supposed to be a fucking library, it's a collection of things that people feel the need to write down, so that other people can read it and learn what's happening. Complete apples/oranges scenario.
The gentleman who heads the ALA is perhaps nervous for some reason, otherwise he wouldn't have a need to attack blogs as if they were comparable to libraries. Might as well just say he hates boats because they don't fly.
What we really want is the ability to see everything that's going on at the same time
That's why God invented Dashboard.
In order for these renders to be accurate, the pictures taken would need to be elevation maps. If the changes in surface brightness were due to material, texture, or shadow, rather than due to changes in elevation, how is that in any way representative of the surface of Titan?
If you take a picture of a mountain from space, half will be nice and bright, the other half with be cloaked in dark, but obviously there isn't a gigantic plateau with a huge pit right next to it!
Change in brightness is only useful if the image is an elevation map, and we don't know if the raw data were indeed elevation maps, so the images could have mountains where there are none, and MOST LIKELY do!
Correction, it was at the MacWorld conf..
Listen to Leo Laporte's CES podcast. Leo and Kevin announce a Grand Alliance of former TechTV cast and friends to make genuine OldSchool TechTV-type content. http://www.leoville.com/blog/ LONG LIVE THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Would it not make more sense to prefer augmentation, for it is MAN'S achievement, MAN'S success, and MAN'S work to take pride in, not something happenstance? What pride can be taken in the luck of the draw? What have you to be proud of, when you have done nothing but been left victim of evolution, given a body inferior to your passions and desires, simply because of bad luck? And what greater way to be proud of mankind's accomplishments than to BECOME it's accomplishment?
I think you just fear being dehumanized. But you shouldn't. Machine's are the most human things there are, for they are the children of humanities efforts, not nature's. Nothing can be more human than that which nature has failed to do but we have. Nothing. Every cyborg, every AI, everything we create, THEY are who and what we are. Not our bodies, not are flesh and bone, that's incidental.
Apply this to birds and we'll get the gene sequence for raptors and other dinos..
Who's up for Jurassic Park? Anyone?
Thats no reason at all. Twelve year olds are smart, you give them too little credit.
OH, and in case you're looking for some good resources, check out PlayHookey: http://www.play-hookey.com/digital/ Get stuff there; counters, flip flops, adders.. Imagine those kids building a calculator or something out of mechanical relays and how proud of themselves they would be to recreate with their own minds the history of the modern computer.
..Noone has mentioned it. C'mon, this is Slashdot! Why hasn't anyone mentioned teaching the kids about logic gates?!
Get some relays and such and teach them the basics of digital logic by building electromechanical logic gates. Infact, show them just the basics or how the relay works, etc. and try to get them to think about how to make it do what it needs to do. They're kids, they've got imagination out the wazoo, they can think of lots of neat things. And it gets them interested in how computers work, rather than just playing video games on the things.
If you and all the rest are shareholders of microsoft stock and can pull enough weight, then yes, you can indeed vote Linus in as CEO of Microsoft.
I would like to comment on your critique of Neuromancer's setting. You say that Gibson's view of Japanese culture permeating all things Western is dated, I wonder if you've ever looked around to see the countless number of Japanese-produced electronics, the countless number of kids and young adults hopelessly in love with anime, the devotion of a large portion of Cartoon Network, the preeminent network that deals with animated media, to anime. Japanese culture does permeate our very existance, however it's Japanese pop-culture. We have taken to Japanese culture much the way the Japanese have taken to foreign cultures: They see something they like, and take it for themselves, changing it and making it somehow less foreign, yet distinctively not native. Have Japanese ways and customs become defacto standards for America? Not really. But how many Slashdotters can truly say that they are not influenced by Japan and Japanese cultures, when we here have links from the Slashdot mainpage to AnimeFu, and we have an entire topic devoted to Anime? The old big 3 video game system companies are Japanese, and what Nintendo and Sony do in that arena innumerable people hang upon. Is it valid, then, to say that Gibson's prediction that Japanese culture would permeate all things Western is false? No, he was quite correct. But it is true that his vision of exactly what would permeate the West was not. Instead of customs and traditions that the Japanese themselves have long since relegated to the history books and niche markets, it is pop-sensations, the ever present anime and videogames, the things that the Japanese themselves have become enthralled with. Those are the permeations into the West, and because of their ubiquity, we, like the characters in Neuromancer, have forgotten that they are indeed foreign to us.
"To ink" is a verb, as in "ink a comic book", even though ink is a noun. All languages have morphological derivation protocol, in one form or another; in English we happen to have two forms of it: The first is an analytical/isolating method in which we add "to make" in from of the noun, as in "to make obsolete". We commonly use this first form in a fragmented way, by inserting the object of the action within the verb, as in "to make motherboards obsolete", however the phrase "the make obsolete motherboards" is a perfectly valid form. However, it's obviously confusing, and hyphens would clarify the meaning (ie, make-obsolete), as would an article before the object (tho "to make obsolete these mothers" sounds very 19th century). English also has a second form, which is well known and widely used. It's more of a demisynthetization, however there is no addition of prefixes or suffixes. It does include the isolating "to" as a mandatory preposition in the infinitive form, however, as in "to obsolete". I think your real issue should have been with the fact that there already is a synthetic verb version of "obsolete", specifically "obsolesce".
I would point out that Native Americans caused the extinction of various species through over hunting, and that the myth of them living in harmony with nature is quite false.
The same way your eyes can detect light at much higher frequencies (red light at 650nm is about 460THz). The transistor OSCILLATES at 500GHz, that doesn't mean that we don't have things sensitive to 500GHz. Shit, we've been using that frequency for radar since WWII. XRay machines work at a few petahertz or more. Oscillation isn't the same thing as reactiveness.
Perhaps you people should try researching your shit a bit more. Neutrons don't come from nowhere you know. They come from fusion. Thats one of the main ways we know when we DO achieve fusion, both in little IEC reactors like this and in big TOKOMAKs like the JET Torus. Perhaps if you RTFA and then LTFS [learn the fucking science] you might not look like the typical clueless slashdotter. Thanks.