You should see the Carouso mobile opera singer from PanStatic. Uses the diaphramatic compression algorithm. Bjorn Snoballs, instigator of the popular free operating system Bjornix, wears one in the shower. LALALALALALA!
Gibson doesn't have the twist that PKDick has-- he's more stylized. You can thank Dick for giving birth to Gibson and others of his ilk. I read Gibson and I think, "Wow, that's a nice image. That's an interesting idea." When I read PKDick, my brain does flipflops ans I begin to question the nature of reality, personality, consciousness. No other author really does that-- maybe Vonnegut and Borges, if you care to wander through a dusty and dark labyrinth.
Can't wait to photosynthesize. This seems like a good first step...
Many computations don't require lightning-fast processes. We ought to look into making many processes run through chemical catylists and handled by the cells of the body. Phactories and Pharms could handle their own computations using chemical process. Information can be stored on protein nucleotide "tapes" written by DNA-like printers. Many solar and battery personal devices could be run on this system, with much less demand for electricity. It would be easy to harness motion to power such devices, as well. A small, fast processor and memory card could be used for communications and math-intensive processes and memory that needs to be readily available. Wearables should give way to more integrated devices that are almost indistinguishable from the individual. Use is first nature, not second.
We do yoga and stress management classes at my work for reducing the stress of keying all day. Once a week, an instructor comes in, and for a half hour we do some simple stretches that greatly relieve the strain.
Try these: 1. stretch your fingers out as wide as you can 2. tense them like claws 3. tuck your thumb under your fingers and make a fist 4. hold your arms out, elbows slightly bent with your hands as a halt sign and bring your fingers back as far as you comfortably can. 5. then, bring the hands down and curl the fingers under into a hook 6. shake out your fingers
the sixth step should be performed every 15 minutes as you are typing. it brings blood into the arms, wrists, and hands.
I've heard that relaxation is a conscious effort. This is making more and more sense to me. Bringing the breathing to a normal, healthy level can be tough when you're under a deadline and popping penguin mints every 5 minutes. Take hold of the unconscious process of breathing and bring some deep breaths in using your diaphram. Body parts can also be consciously relaxed.
Body awareness is something geeks as a group seem to lack development in. The time invested in it will pay off in extra hours of hacking. At least until you upload your consciousness...
It occurred to me as I was drinking my espresso and downing a multivitamin and considering whether I should eat one of those power bars that this technological information-oriented work culture could be killing me and I am seeking to stave off exhaustion with performance enhancers. The simple pleasure of sleep has turned into an irritaion that I have to turn off at all. I might miss something.
...is to never store anything you don't want corrupted on the drive and to reformat it every month or so and install a fresh copy of the OS. this will also close up memory leaks and put back all the.dlls that got "updated" and now cause your machine to crash every 10 min or so. it will also get rid of all the copies of back orifice that those nasty activeX hackerz slipped you when you went to the porn/serialz site "accidently." i just look at it as preventative maintenance.
check out Mankind in Amnesia by Immanuel Velikovsky. He posited that cataclysm not only produced changes that spurred on evolution, but that these events also helped evolve our consciousness. This includes some other strange effects, like how we can coexist on the planet with super-destructive weapons that could wipe out our civilization with little or no cognitive dissonance.
check the freshmeat, baby. there's so much stuff that uses mySql. This type of licensing seems to have the best of both worlds. It allows hackers to make a bit of cash so they don't gnaw away at their keyboards, and it allows the community to gain access to the product and run with it as it chooses. That is, if this license is truly openSource.
you lose more brain cells going to the gas station. besides, it's not addictive like legal drugs, alcohol and nicotine. those are physically addictive substances. (it's amazing how ill-informed even many intelligent people can be on this subject.) pot can be psychologically habit-forming, but then so is much that we do... would you want to ban slashdot?
As first Preseident and Chief Commander of Cyber Yuga, the first act I plan is to declare war on the online communities MSN and AOL. Vote Thanotechnocrat in 2000.
This starts the discussion of not whether you thought the movie was fake or real or whether you got seasick and wanted to puke up your 3 margaritas, but what doors is this movie opening. Whether you believe it sucks or not, the success of this movie will set a trend. Movie as science experiment? Movie as extended practical joke? These are issues that have mostly been tackled by small, fringe filmmakers (all this hype about independent studios is crap-- the real indy pictures are shown in living rooms with people sitting on the floor. If this doesn't sound familiar, you've been staring at that screen too damn long.) Does the filmmaker have the right to do anything he wants to the actors? Where does the fantasy end and their rights begin? What if the directors had decided to make the movie about the three actors, secretly filming them out in the woods, leaving no notes and harassing them for days until they broke down and began to really believe there was a blair witch? Would that be enough realism for you?
"...and that the "film students" are such uder morons that they deserve the slowest and painfulest death they can find."
They are uder morons and this clown cannot spell. This post is the most painfulest to read. I did not vote against the post, but many people are quick to call someone or some group a moron. They generally speak for themselves.
Slashdot Mirror
Bjorn Snowballs, creator of the Bjornix OS, comments in his typical non-commital fashion, "You can't account for taste."
This thing is a terrible mind.
You should see the Carouso mobile opera singer from PanStatic. Uses the diaphramatic compression algorithm. Bjorn Snoballs, instigator of the popular free operating system Bjornix, wears one in the shower. LALALALALALA!
Gibson doesn't have the twist that PKDick has-- he's more stylized. You can thank Dick for giving birth to Gibson and others of his ilk. I read Gibson and I think, "Wow, that's a nice image. That's an interesting idea." When I read PKDick, my brain does flipflops ans I begin to question the nature of reality, personality, consciousness. No other author really does that-- maybe Vonnegut and Borges, if you care to wander through a dusty and dark labyrinth.
Can't wait to photosynthesize. This seems like a good first step...
Many computations don't require lightning-fast processes. We ought to look
into making many processes run through chemical catylists and handled by the
cells of the body. Phactories and Pharms could handle their own
computations using chemical process. Information can be stored on protein
nucleotide "tapes" written by DNA-like printers. Many solar and battery
personal devices could be run on this system, with much less demand for
electricity. It would be easy to harness motion to power such devices, as
well. A small, fast processor and memory card could be used for
communications and math-intensive processes and memory that needs to be
readily available. Wearables should give way to more integrated devices
that are almost indistinguishable from the individual. Use is first nature,
not second.
Working on a piece of fiction that paralells this:
http://thinktank.knoggin.com/th inc/pages/pharmboy.htm
Free Film project anyone?
We do yoga and stress management classes at my work for reducing the stress of keying all day. Once a week, an instructor comes in, and for a half hour we do some simple stretches that greatly relieve the strain.
Try these:
1. stretch your fingers out as wide as you can
2. tense them like claws
3. tuck your thumb under your fingers and make a fist
4. hold your arms out, elbows slightly bent with your hands as a halt sign and bring your fingers back as far as you comfortably can.
5. then, bring the hands down and curl the fingers under into a hook
6. shake out your fingers
the sixth step should be performed every 15 minutes as you are typing. it brings blood into the arms, wrists, and hands.
I've heard that relaxation is a conscious effort. This is making more and more sense to me. Bringing the breathing to a normal, healthy level can be tough when you're under a deadline and popping penguin mints every 5 minutes. Take hold of the unconscious process of breathing and bring some deep breaths in using your diaphram. Body parts can also be consciously relaxed.
Body awareness is something geeks as a group seem to lack development in. The time invested in it will pay off in extra hours of hacking. At least until you upload your consciousness...
It occurred to me as I was drinking my espresso and downing a multivitamin and considering whether I should eat one of those power bars that this technological information-oriented work culture could be killing me and I am seeking to stave off exhaustion with performance enhancers. The simple pleasure of sleep has turned into an irritaion that I have to turn off at all. I might miss something.
...is to never store anything you don't want corrupted on the drive and to reformat it every month or so and install a fresh copy of the OS. this will also close up memory leaks and put back all the .dlls that got "updated" and now cause your machine to crash every 10 min or so. it will also get rid of all the copies of back orifice that those nasty activeX hackerz slipped you when you went to the porn/serialz site "accidently." i just look at it as preventative maintenance.
win98 guru
sweet FA? desolation boulevard... and using it as a metaphor for the backdoor. keebler, you are gorgeous.
my question is this:
how many of you out there learned your skills at a public school?
check out Mankind in Amnesia by Immanuel Velikovsky. He posited that cataclysm not only produced changes that spurred on evolution, but that these events also helped evolve our consciousness. This includes some other strange effects, like how we can coexist on the planet with super-destructive weapons that could wipe out our civilization with little or no cognitive dissonance.
is the beggars and choosers based on the Kim Stanley Robinson SF novel of the same name? Anybody know out there?
check the freshmeat, baby. there's so much stuff that uses mySql. This type of licensing seems to have the best of both worlds. It allows hackers to make a bit of cash so they don't gnaw away at their keyboards, and it allows the community to gain access to the product and run with it as it chooses. That is, if this license is truly openSource.
you lose more brain cells going to the gas station. besides, it's not addictive like legal drugs, alcohol and nicotine. those are physically addictive substances. (it's amazing how ill-informed even many intelligent people can be on this subject.) pot can be psychologically habit-forming, but then so is much that we do... would you want to ban slashdot?
grow up
As first Preseident and Chief Commander of Cyber Yuga, the first act I plan is to declare war on the online communities MSN and AOL. Vote Thanotechnocrat in 2000.
Does anybody even know what a communist is anymore? All I know is it's bad, very bad-- cause communists smell funny and never get invited to parties.
They shot more than 8 hours worth of film. You are out of your gourd. $40 G ain't nothing. So what is your masterpiece?
Thank you
The new Hollywood actor: Emotional guinea pig?
That is first insightful comment on this page.
This starts the discussion of not whether you thought the movie was fake or real or whether you got seasick and wanted to puke up your 3 margaritas, but what doors is this movie opening. Whether you believe it sucks or not, the success of this movie will set a trend. Movie as science experiment? Movie as extended practical joke? These are issues that have mostly been tackled by small, fringe filmmakers (all this hype about independent studios is crap-- the real indy pictures are shown in living rooms with people sitting on the floor. If this doesn't sound familiar, you've been staring at that screen too damn long.) Does the filmmaker have the right to do anything he wants to the actors? Where does the fantasy end and their rights begin? What if the directors had decided to make the movie about the three actors, secretly filming them out in the woods, leaving no notes and harassing them for days until they broke down and began to really believe there was a blair witch? Would that be enough realism for you?
Let's see: what does "underly boring" mean?
"...and that the "film students" are such uder morons that they deserve the
slowest and painfulest death they can find."
They are uder morons and this clown cannot spell. This post is the most painfulest to read. I did not vote against the post, but many people are quick to call someone or some group a moron. They generally speak for themselves.