Feeling pedantic today....
A meteor falling from the sky has an impact on the ground. Using firewood in quantity had quite an EFFECT on forests.
Don't take it personally, blame the media for mucking up the language.
WtF does pre-installed mean? They installed it before they installed it? Perhaps they meant "Comes with Mandriva installed". Pre means BEFORE, not ahead of time.
The more you know!
Bill,
Make the hardware FREE and the Zune will be a tremendous hit and iPod killer. Make your money back on the subscriptions with no to light DRM. Done!
impact != effect
The effect (noun) of the meteor's impact (object striking another) was devastating. The blast affected (verb) the power grid for miles.
Yay. It is as i have foreseen.
The album is obsolete. Most albums have 5 worthwhile tracks and 10 mediocre tracks you skip, but they charge you for all 15.
Abraxis and albums like it still have a place. If the songs are a series or set, by all means, release them as such. But artists should focus on making good tracks and playing concerts.
There is a FOURTH Dr. Who series? There was the old one, then the new one with Billie Piper et all, and now two others. Does this mean there are three Dr. Who shows running at once? Is this some sort of multiple timeline thing?
Or do this mean this is the fourth SEASON of the new Dr. Who series?
"Interesting to see the beautification of PC cases in the pages of the old grey lady."
PC cases haven't been boring since the mid 90's. Ever heard of Lian Li (and about a dozen other companies making cases)? Ever hear of case modding?
The term we should use for this technology is Psionics. Avionics is flight technology, this is mind technology. Plus it just sounds cooler than BCI.
D&D fans will recognize the term as referring to telekinesis, telepathy etc. Those should actually be called Psychogenics.
So, when can i use this to fly my veritech?
"E" stands for energy, yo that's me, I'm a brilliant scientist and a dope MC. Before you step to me I'd think twice G, I'm the Lord of Chaos, King of Entropy. You down with it? I motherfvckin' hope so, 'cause if you're not, I got a motherfvckin' rope yo! I'll string you up, from a big-ass tree, with a sign round your neck that says, "Wack MC". There ain't another motherfucker hard like me, I'm a universal constant, I'm a singularity. Got Doomsday at my back with fat-ass tracks, he pumps funk in the cracks and cuts wax with an axe. So listen up bitch, 'cause there may be a test, my style is smooth, but it's hard to digest. My science is tight, rhymes faster than light, like a ton of TNT I'm about to ignite.
The simple term for this technology is Psionics. Avionics is electronics concerning aviation, psionics is mind/machine interface.
D&D got it wrong. What they can Psionics should be called Psychogenics.
Or we could call it Protoculture. Hehe.
*sniff*
Beautiful, sir. Just beautiful.
i've long thought that bands should be paid for doing what WE want them to do... play music. As in, in front of me at a concert. Sell me something REAL something i can't download or record or copy. Sell me an EXPERIENCE. i'll buy tickets and shirts, but paying for data just annoys me when i know bloody well through the law of supply and demand that data is WORTHLESS because the supply is virtually INFINITE.
i know i'm coming to this thread late, but your post reminded me of a theory i recently made.
Morality is a luxury and a by-product of technology. Civilization and its evolution is a sort of social technology. (YHIHF!)
We can afford to think about women's rights because we aren't running away from lions and wolves. We can argue about the morality of eating animals for pleasure because we aren't spending all of our daylight hours working the fields or chasing down a gazelle. We can learn about Nietzsche because our fellow humans aren't trying to take our land and females.
Similarly, the rich can buy paintings, while the poorest of us might resort to crime to buy food. How can one care about history or math when one is hungry or under constant threat of death?
Therefore: World peace or utopia will be the result of technologies that bring everyone out of hunger, fear and envy. It won't be diplomats or peace activists who bring us peace. It will be scientists and companies making things to bring luxuries down to the masses.
If you want to play a game where you can conquer territory and not worry about grinding or someone stealing your loot... PLAY PLANETSIDE!!!
In PlanetSide you are a soldier in a never ending battle to capture continents. New and veteran players have access to the same equipment. The game requires operating within a team. Organized teams beat gaggles every time. The game isn't a grind or treadmill because you can start the game with just about any weapon or vehicle that a veteran can. High ranked players have access to more things at once. i've been playing it for about 3 years and still love it.
Planestside is an MMO, but not an RPG, that handles this wonderfully. Level 1 and 20 guys have access to the same equipment, but the level 20 guy also has access to this, that and the other thing. Levels give you the ability to play multiple roles, whereas a noob can take only one role at a time. You have motivation to advance, but the scale is more limited.
Plus it is a damn fun game. It puts CS to shame in terms of squad tactics. My team can field almost 100 guys, divided into divisions and teams. Battles can involve more than 300 players. And unlike Battlefield, the struggle is persistent./does not work for sony, just loves the game
If you think any country wouldn't go to war to protect its economic interests you are fooling yourself.
Most (virtually all) wars are about economic, grab a history book.
If, while you're out in space, love You're horny as a targ Take a tip from a security chief, love That fat slut Tasha Yar She discovered the pleasures of Data He became her sexual pet
'cause he's fully functional, and anatomically correct He's fully functional and anatomically correct
Deepest apologies for the typos... i was at work and in a hurry.
Anywho. As i said (at least) TWICE, "United States of" is a descriptor. Bundesrepublic Deutschland does not mean Deutschland Deutschland. Sometimes people call America by just the descriptor, that does not make it the name of the country. If you read the paragraph about United States of Uruguay, i made that point clearly. US is short for USA. USA is short for United States of America. There *could* be more than one "United States of", just as there is in fact TWO "People's Republics of" Korea and China. There is no ambiguity in saying "The United States", but there would be in "People's Republic".
Last Time: For the English Language ONLY THE AmericaS = North and South America America = A country, the FULL name of which is United States of America Democratic People's Republic of Korea = North Korea (the descriptor tells us which) Republic of Korea = South Korea THE KoreaS = North and South Korea, collectively
There is a similar thing with the Congos. There are two, the "Democratic People's Republic of" and the "Republic of". Collectively, the are THE CongoS. If Canada, wanted to have the descriptor "United States of", then calling America the United States would cause ambiguity. Since there is no ambiguity in saying "the United States", people accept it, though it is incomplete.
The Germans live in Germany The French live in France The Americans live in... AMERICA!
The whole idea behind "America" referring to "THE AmericaS" is based on the assumption that a-m-e-r-i-c-a means the same thing in English and in the languages of Latin America. Acknowledging that said combination of letters means this in english and that in other languages/cultures eliminates the problem. And that's all i'm talking about, that was the scope of my first post. Feel free to call yourself United Statesian, and to pretend to be confused when someone says "He is American".
Cliff Notes Version of this Post:
America (in english) != (necessarily) America (in any other language)
Other Languages != The Subject of my previous post
"It's only inside the US and other English speaking countries that America only refers to a single country."
We're discussing English... in English. Not Spanish, or any other language. If you were, then we are comparing apples and oranges and can GBtW.
If i said "He's American", no English speaker would ask "Which America?". A Brazillian might, but that has *nothing* to do with what i was saying. i'm not a United Statesian. Saying "i'm American" is 100% accurate in English (the only language i was discussing in my post), it causes 0 confusion and has 0 ambiguity between my and *my audience of English speakers*. It's not lazy because no one ever says "I'm United States of American". Germans don't call themselves "Bundesrepublik Duetsch".
When people say "the United States" we know they refer to America because there is no other United States, 0 ambiguity. If Uruguay wanted to call itself the United States of Uruguay (as translated into English), then there would be ambiguity. But if we still call America, America, and still call Uruguay, Uruguay, there is no ambiguity.
When they chant "death to America" they aren't refering to the two continents. No one, even speakers of other languages think they are referring to Canada or Peru.
Think of it like this:
Name of Country, Descriptor
America, United States of
China, People's Rebuplic of
Korea, Republic of
France, Republic of
The name of the country where i'm sitting is "America". YES! There are continents named America as well, that's given. But in English (this language you and i are using and the subject of my post) we have ways of denoting which one we mean.
If we are having a conversation in English and you want to refer to both of the continents in the western hemisphere, you would say "THE AmericaS". A Brazillian might say "America"... but he's Brazillian and he's speaking Portuguese, and is right in doing so in *his* language. i'm NOT talking about Portuguese, i'm talking about English. The Portuguese and Brazillians can use the letters a-m-e-r-i-c-a to refer to anything they please; a continent, a set of continents, a country or a bagel shop around the corner. It's beyond the scope of *my* post.
Embarrassed in English means ashamed or humiliated. A very similar word in Spanish, embarazada, means pregnant. Sets of letters and sounds can mean different things in different languages. But those two words are NOT the same. Just as an American (from USA, speaking English) saying the word "America" means something different than an Argentine saying "America" (in Spanish).
[offtopic] North American is a continent. America is a country. The Americas refers to North and South America. "United States of" is a descriptor. Much like "People's Republic of" or "Bundesrepublik". I'm not a United Statesian, I'm American.
If someone says "America/American" they are refering to the USA. When someone says the "United States" they mean America, but "United States" is NOT the name of the country any more than Republique is the name of France. Canadians and Mexicans are NOT American, they are North American. [/offtopic]
Once they figure out how to do this to insects, then they might want to try it with bigger and smarter critters, like humans. War could become an FPS. Strap some trodes to a baby nobody wanted, and you've got a totally controlled soldier. People the gov't values control the soldiers at a distance. Organic combat drones. What could go wrong?
We could have Battle Bots but with humans. Genetically engineered humans made to be tough and fast.... Then hand the controller over to some rich people and let them enjoy virtual deathmatches./slippery sloped to the extreme to make the point
TFA is not discussing Robots at all. It describes remote control devices. A robot is (all but) autonomous, these machines are no more autonomous than the remote control cars we played with as kids. The laws of robotics don't apply.
Those laws concern programming and design, remote devices have no programming. Your washing machine is closer to a robot. A cruise missile is given instructions and the ability to navigate and then follows way points to the target with no operator intervention, that's a robot... designed to break the first law. Though i'd have to say that for military purposes the first law is a non-issue. That's why most weapon systems have a person in the loop.
Think of the show Robot Wars... not a robot in sight. All just remote control cars with weapons and armor.
Now if we were going to build actual combat robots and wanted to apply the first law, it would be modified to state "don't harm/kill non-combatants".
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Feeling pedantic today.... A meteor falling from the sky has an impact on the ground. Using firewood in quantity had quite an EFFECT on forests. Don't take it personally, blame the media for mucking up the language.
WtF does pre-installed mean? They installed it before they installed it? Perhaps they meant "Comes with Mandriva installed". Pre means BEFORE, not ahead of time. The more you know!
"Not without" = "has".
Bill, Make the hardware FREE and the Zune will be a tremendous hit and iPod killer. Make your money back on the subscriptions with no to light DRM. Done!
impact != effect The effect (noun) of the meteor's impact (object striking another) was devastating. The blast affected (verb) the power grid for miles.
Yay. It is as i have foreseen. The album is obsolete. Most albums have 5 worthwhile tracks and 10 mediocre tracks you skip, but they charge you for all 15. Abraxis and albums like it still have a place. If the songs are a series or set, by all means, release them as such. But artists should focus on making good tracks and playing concerts.
There is a FOURTH Dr. Who series? There was the old one, then the new one with Billie Piper et all, and now two others. Does this mean there are three Dr. Who shows running at once? Is this some sort of multiple timeline thing? Or do this mean this is the fourth SEASON of the new Dr. Who series?
"Interesting to see the beautification of PC cases in the pages of the old grey lady." PC cases haven't been boring since the mid 90's. Ever heard of Lian Li (and about a dozen other companies making cases)? Ever hear of case modding?
The term we should use for this technology is Psionics. Avionics is flight technology, this is mind technology. Plus it just sounds cooler than BCI. D&D fans will recognize the term as referring to telekinesis, telepathy etc. Those should actually be called Psychogenics. So, when can i use this to fly my veritech?
i prefer Stephen's work in hip hop"
"E" stands for energy, yo that's me,
I'm a brilliant scientist and a dope MC.
Before you step to me I'd think twice G,
I'm the Lord of Chaos, King of Entropy.
You down with it? I motherfvckin' hope so,
'cause if you're not, I got a motherfvckin' rope yo!
I'll string you up, from a big-ass tree,
with a sign round your neck that says, "Wack MC".
There ain't another motherfucker hard like me,
I'm a universal constant, I'm a singularity.
Got Doomsday at my back with fat-ass tracks,
he pumps funk in the cracks and cuts wax with an axe.
So listen up bitch, 'cause there may be a test,
my style is smooth, but it's hard to digest.
My science is tight, rhymes faster than light,
like a ton of TNT I'm about to ignite.
Chorus:
E=mc,
E=mc Hawking!
Can someone post the PDF of the whole thing somewhere public? Please?
The simple term for this technology is Psionics. Avionics is electronics concerning aviation, psionics is mind/machine interface. D&D got it wrong. What they can Psionics should be called Psychogenics. Or we could call it Protoculture. Hehe.
*sniff* Beautiful, sir. Just beautiful. i've long thought that bands should be paid for doing what WE want them to do... play music. As in, in front of me at a concert. Sell me something REAL something i can't download or record or copy. Sell me an EXPERIENCE. i'll buy tickets and shirts, but paying for data just annoys me when i know bloody well through the law of supply and demand that data is WORTHLESS because the supply is virtually INFINITE.
i know i'm coming to this thread late, but your post reminded me of a theory i recently made. Morality is a luxury and a by-product of technology. Civilization and its evolution is a sort of social technology. (YHIHF!) We can afford to think about women's rights because we aren't running away from lions and wolves. We can argue about the morality of eating animals for pleasure because we aren't spending all of our daylight hours working the fields or chasing down a gazelle. We can learn about Nietzsche because our fellow humans aren't trying to take our land and females. Similarly, the rich can buy paintings, while the poorest of us might resort to crime to buy food. How can one care about history or math when one is hungry or under constant threat of death? Therefore: World peace or utopia will be the result of technologies that bring everyone out of hunger, fear and envy. It won't be diplomats or peace activists who bring us peace. It will be scientists and companies making things to bring luxuries down to the masses.
If you want to play a game where you can conquer territory and not worry about grinding or someone stealing your loot... PLAY PLANETSIDE!!! In PlanetSide you are a soldier in a never ending battle to capture continents. New and veteran players have access to the same equipment. The game requires operating within a team. Organized teams beat gaggles every time. The game isn't a grind or treadmill because you can start the game with just about any weapon or vehicle that a veteran can. High ranked players have access to more things at once. i've been playing it for about 3 years and still love it.
Awesome headline!!?!
Brilliant post, sir.
Planestside is an MMO, but not an RPG, that handles this wonderfully. Level 1 and 20 guys have access to the same equipment, but the level 20 guy also has access to this, that and the other thing. Levels give you the ability to play multiple roles, whereas a noob can take only one role at a time. You have motivation to advance, but the scale is more limited. Plus it is a damn fun game. It puts CS to shame in terms of squad tactics. My team can field almost 100 guys, divided into divisions and teams. Battles can involve more than 300 players. And unlike Battlefield, the struggle is persistent. /does not work for sony, just loves the game
If you think any country wouldn't go to war to protect its economic interests you are fooling yourself. Most (virtually all) wars are about economic, grab a history book.
The Sexy Data Tango Lyrics
a ta-Tango-lyrics-Voltaire/527F42FD89452DC148256DAA0 025B8E4/
by Voltaire
If, while you're out in space, love
You're horny as a targ
Take a tip from a security chief, love
That fat slut Tasha Yar
She discovered the pleasures of Data
He became her sexual pet
'cause he's fully functional, and anatomically correct
He's fully functional and anatomically correct
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Sexy-D
Deepest apologies for the typos... i was at work and in a hurry.
Anywho. As i said (at least) TWICE, "United States of" is a descriptor. Bundesrepublic Deutschland does not mean Deutschland Deutschland. Sometimes people call America by just the descriptor, that does not make it the name of the country. If you read the paragraph about United States of Uruguay, i made that point clearly. US is short for USA. USA is short for United States of America. There *could* be more than one "United States of", just as there is in fact TWO "People's Republics of" Korea and China. There is no ambiguity in saying "The United States", but there would be in "People's Republic".
Last Time:
For the English Language ONLY
THE AmericaS = North and South America
America = A country, the FULL name of which is United States of America
Democratic People's Republic of Korea = North Korea (the descriptor tells us which)
Republic of Korea = South Korea
THE KoreaS = North and South Korea, collectively
There is a similar thing with the Congos. There are two, the "Democratic People's Republic of" and the "Republic of". Collectively, the are THE CongoS. If Canada, wanted to have the descriptor "United States of", then calling America the United States would cause ambiguity. Since there is no ambiguity in saying "the United States", people accept it, though it is incomplete.
The Germans live in Germany
The French live in France
The Americans live in... AMERICA!
The whole idea behind "America" referring to "THE AmericaS" is based on the assumption that a-m-e-r-i-c-a means the same thing in English and in the languages of Latin America. Acknowledging that said combination of letters means this in english and that in other languages/cultures eliminates the problem. And that's all i'm talking about, that was the scope of my first post. Feel free to call yourself United Statesian, and to pretend to be confused when someone says "He is American".
i won't read your reply, but thanks for the fun.
Cliff Notes Version of this Post: America (in english) != (necessarily) America (in any other language) Other Languages != The Subject of my previous post
"It's only inside the US and other English speaking countries that America only refers to a single country."
We're discussing English... in English. Not Spanish, or any other language. If you were, then we are comparing apples and oranges and can GBtW.
If i said "He's American", no English speaker would ask "Which America?". A Brazillian might, but that has *nothing* to do with what i was saying. i'm not a United Statesian. Saying "i'm American" is 100% accurate in English (the only language i was discussing in my post), it causes 0 confusion and has 0 ambiguity between my and *my audience of English speakers*. It's not lazy because no one ever says "I'm United States of American". Germans don't call themselves "Bundesrepublik Duetsch".
When people say "the United States" we know they refer to America because there is no other United States, 0 ambiguity. If Uruguay wanted to call itself the United States of Uruguay (as translated into English), then there would be ambiguity. But if we still call America, America, and still call Uruguay, Uruguay, there is no ambiguity.
When they chant "death to America" they aren't refering to the two continents. No one, even speakers of other languages think they are referring to Canada or Peru.
Think of it like this: Name of Country, Descriptor
America, United States of
China, People's Rebuplic of
Korea, Republic of
France, Republic of
The name of the country where i'm sitting is "America". YES! There are continents named America as well, that's given. But in English (this language you and i are using and the subject of my post) we have ways of denoting which one we mean.
If we are having a conversation in English and you want to refer to both of the continents in the western hemisphere, you would say "THE AmericaS". A Brazillian might say "America"... but he's Brazillian and he's speaking Portuguese, and is right in doing so in *his* language. i'm NOT talking about Portuguese, i'm talking about English. The Portuguese and Brazillians can use the letters a-m-e-r-i-c-a to refer to anything they please; a continent, a set of continents, a country or a bagel shop around the corner. It's beyond the scope of *my* post.
Embarrassed in English means ashamed or humiliated. A very similar word in Spanish, embarazada, means pregnant. Sets of letters and sounds can mean different things in different languages. But those two words are NOT the same. Just as an American (from USA, speaking English) saying the word "America" means something different than an Argentine saying "America" (in Spanish).
Pedantically,
Apeiron
[offtopic]
North American is a continent. America is a country. The Americas refers to North and South America. "United States of" is a descriptor. Much like "People's Republic of" or "Bundesrepublik". I'm not a United Statesian, I'm American.
If someone says "America/American" they are refering to the USA. When someone says the "United States" they mean America, but "United States" is NOT the name of the country any more than Republique is the name of France. Canadians and Mexicans are NOT American, they are North American.
[/offtopic]
Once they figure out how to do this to insects, then they might want to try it with bigger and smarter critters, like humans. War could become an FPS. Strap some trodes to a baby nobody wanted, and you've got a totally controlled soldier. People the gov't values control the soldiers at a distance. Organic combat drones. What could go wrong?
/slippery sloped to the extreme to make the point
We could have Battle Bots but with humans. Genetically engineered humans made to be tough and fast.... Then hand the controller over to some rich people and let them enjoy virtual deathmatches.
TFA is not discussing Robots at all. It describes remote control devices. A robot is (all but) autonomous, these machines are no more autonomous than the remote control cars we played with as kids. The laws of robotics don't apply.
Those laws concern programming and design, remote devices have no programming. Your washing machine is closer to a robot. A cruise missile is given instructions and the ability to navigate and then follows way points to the target with no operator intervention, that's a robot... designed to break the first law. Though i'd have to say that for military purposes the first law is a non-issue. That's why most weapon systems have a person in the loop.
Think of the show Robot Wars... not a robot in sight. All just remote control cars with weapons and armor.
Now if we were going to build actual combat robots and wanted to apply the first law, it would be modified to state "don't harm/kill non-combatants".