If you have "Less Efficiency" on both sides of the equation, that beg's the question, "less than what?" The way it often works after a certain point is, the more people you add, the less the efficiency you get. Therefore we have Brooks' Law (which as the wikipedia article itself admits is rather generalized.)
I think you misunderstood the GP. He is not saying we should pick up everyone who at some point had a drink with the third cousin, twice removed, of a hacker, and throw them on a CIA plane to be boiled in Uzbekistan without any semblance of due process.
And as other people have said, the government is going after hackers.
And yet people keep insisting that the quantum theory is a fact, and that anyone who doesn't believe that the cat is both dead and alive at the same time until you open the box is a moron.
I've been a subscriber for at least 8 years. Like you, I don't have much time for reading anymore, so I only do during <too much info censorship>. And as thin as the mags have gotten, I'm still 10 months behind.
What about background radiation? That's everywhere, isn't it? Or are we considering "empty space" as a theoretical place where there isn't even any radiation at all? And if the Casimir effect counts, wouldn't gravity count as well? Well, I guess there could conceivably be points in space where gravity is 100% cancelled out....
It is mostly for creative/artistic reasons and preserving the integrity of the film as the creators intended it.
Of course the same reasoning would apply to suing people modify the "improved" original Star Wars trilogy. Lucas had artistic reasons for changing the scenes that he did, no one has the right to change any of them back.
Terrifying, and extraordinarily difficult to predict, but in the long run the *only* way species survive is by changing
Just how "long" a run are we talking here? 100 years is not all that long as far as evolutions is concerned, barring sudden epidemics and the like. Some species have been pretty much the same for millions of years, and they don't even have access to technology to help them along. I'm sure that future scientific achievements would very likely lead to changing the definition of what it means to be human, but I don't think it would be necessary to survival of the species. With sufficiently advanced technology, any environment short of a black hole (and maybe even that some day) could be modified to fit the current humans. The human race could conceivably even survive the destruction of the universe by hopping dimensions or something.
But a world-wide thermonuclear war in the near future would of course bring all this crashing down. It wouldn't kill everyone, but enough to set civilization back quite a bit.
I'm pretty sure that the only geneticaly engineered humans were the Outers - the group who broke away from the rest of humanity to live their entire lives in space. Some of them were even engineered to have "solar sail"-type wings, and so forth. Some of the "ordinary" humans did choose to get biomods, to make themselves look like animals hybrids for example, but that was more plastic surgery than genetic engineering.
And I personally was thinking of the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons, in which there were human inhabitted planets with gravities up to 1.7g (that particular one had relatively few people on it.) But one planet with 1.3g was known for its short, stocky, muscular residents.
Personally, I've always preferred the LucasFilms/LucasArts adventure games to the Sierra ones. Maybe because reloading for the 20th time after the robot/troll/whatever kills you got a bit old.
I don't know why anyone from the Middle East would possibly live here.
Because it's still better than living in the Middle East? This reminds me of that American Dad two-part episode where Stan gets transferred to Saudi Arabia.
You missed the most common one: password. But I guess I can't blame you since I don't think it was mentioned in Hackers. Probably because it would have jeopardized national security or something.
Also a lot of people just use their usernames as passwords, as long as the system allows it. Maybe tack on a 1 on the end.
What about people who daydream about just how they'll level up their World of Warcraft Night Elf Priestess, or whatever, when they finally get home? They're not paying any more attention to the road than the cell users.
I won't bother with converting the currencies but here in the UK new Xbox 360 games (with the exception of pretty much just Rockstar Table Tennis) cost £49.99 in stores
Wow, $90 American (thanks google!) I'm damn glad I don't live in the UK. Of course I don't buy console games anyway, but I'm guessing these prices reflect on PC games as well.
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That, and those poker chips block the Internet's tubes....
Unlike the horses which race straight through under their own power.
I love the Daily Show.
If it's good enough for Solaria, it's good enough for us. Now where are my transducer lobes?
A pinto can "smoke" just about any car as it is. All it has to do is stop suddenly when the other car is close behind it.
If you have "Less Efficiency" on both sides of the equation, that beg's the question, "less than what?" The way it often works after a certain point is, the more people you add, the less the efficiency you get. Therefore we have Brooks' Law (which as the wikipedia article itself admits is rather generalized.)
Both are boring as far as I'm concerned, though of course the right scenery (especially when sunbathing) could change that.
I think you misunderstood the GP. He is not saying we should pick up everyone who at some point had a drink with the third cousin, twice removed, of a hacker, and throw them on a CIA plane to be boiled in Uzbekistan without any semblance of due process.
And as other people have said, the government is going after hackers.
Just goes to show how far ahead they are of us.
And yet people keep insisting that the quantum theory is a fact, and that anyone who doesn't believe that the cat is both dead and alive at the same time until you open the box is a moron.
I've been a subscriber for at least 8 years. Like you, I don't have much time for reading anymore, so I only do during <too much info censorship>. And as thin as the mags have gotten, I'm still 10 months behind.
What about background radiation? That's everywhere, isn't it? Or are we considering "empty space" as a theoretical place where there isn't even any radiation at all? And if the Casimir effect counts, wouldn't gravity count as well? Well, I guess there could conceivably be points in space where gravity is 100% cancelled out....
It is mostly for creative/artistic reasons and preserving the integrity of the film as the creators intended it.
Of course the same reasoning would apply to suing people modify the "improved" original Star Wars trilogy. Lucas had artistic reasons for changing the scenes that he did, no one has the right to change any of them back.
Terrifying, and extraordinarily difficult to predict, but in the long run the *only* way species survive is by changing
Just how "long" a run are we talking here? 100 years is not all that long as far as evolutions is concerned, barring sudden epidemics and the like. Some species have been pretty much the same for millions of years, and they don't even have access to technology to help them along. I'm sure that future scientific achievements would very likely lead to changing the definition of what it means to be human, but I don't think it would be necessary to survival of the species. With sufficiently advanced technology, any environment short of a black hole (and maybe even that some day) could be modified to fit the current humans. The human race could conceivably even survive the destruction of the universe by hopping dimensions or something.
But a world-wide thermonuclear war in the near future would of course bring all this crashing down. It wouldn't kill everyone, but enough to set civilization back quite a bit.
I'm pretty sure that the only geneticaly engineered humans were the Outers - the group who broke away from the rest of humanity to live their entire lives in space. Some of them were even engineered to have "solar sail"-type wings, and so forth. Some of the "ordinary" humans did choose to get biomods, to make themselves look like animals hybrids for example, but that was more plastic surgery than genetic engineering.
And I personally was thinking of the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons, in which there were human inhabitted planets with gravities up to 1.7g (that particular one had relatively few people on it.) But one planet with 1.3g was known for its short, stocky, muscular residents.
That can be said about almost any place.
Personally, I've always preferred the LucasFilms/LucasArts adventure games to the Sierra ones. Maybe because reloading for the 20th time after the robot/troll/whatever kills you got a bit old.
I don't know why anyone from the Middle East would possibly live here.
Because it's still better than living in the Middle East? This reminds me of that American Dad two-part episode where Stan gets transferred to Saudi Arabia.
You missed the most common one: password. But I guess I can't blame you since I don't think it was mentioned in Hackers. Probably because it would have jeopardized national security or something.
Also a lot of people just use their usernames as passwords, as long as the system allows it. Maybe tack on a 1 on the end.
Hmm, after reading that, I can't help but consider the possibility of it being a hardware problem.
Still, it might be helpful to diagnose the issue once you realize that she uses the power strip to turn the computer on and off.
Man, poor guy aims for a +5 Funny and lands on a -1 Troll instead. I guess its a statement about our society that so many people took him seriously.
I'm in the same boat, only I didn't know they were all done by Billy West until I looked him up on wikipedia while reading this article.
Which is why there is the next best thing to editing posts - a preview button. Which, admittedly, I always forget to use.
What about people who daydream about just how they'll level up their World of Warcraft Night Elf Priestess, or whatever, when they finally get home? They're not paying any more attention to the road than the cell users.
I won't bother with converting the currencies but here in the UK new Xbox 360 games (with the exception of pretty much just Rockstar Table Tennis) cost £49.99 in stores
Wow, $90 American (thanks google!) I'm damn glad I don't live in the UK. Of course I don't buy console games anyway, but I'm guessing these prices reflect on PC games as well.