Your living in a capitalistic world that is being overran and controlled by corporations.
While Capitalism isn't bad, uncontrolled corporations with power to influence policy & law makers is bad, very, very bad.
Corporations exist to make as much money for their shareholders as possible. That is it. Anything else is secondary.
And when you don't regulate corporations, don't limit their power, you get corruption, and lots of companies doing what they want to make money and not caring about the long term outcome.
Sad part is, i'm not being funny, sarcastic, or talking shit. This crap is real and has been happening all around us.
They are just comparing sales with completed torrents. It's actually a conservative estimate since there are other forms of piracy like private servers.
Wow, your a fucking idiot.
You didn't read the article, but decided to answer a question about it?
here ya go, ya dumb ass
"We released the game DRM-free which means it doesn’t include any anti-piracy protection, therefore the game doesn’t bother players serial codes or online authentication, but it’s also very easy to copy it," Amanita's Jakub Dvorsky explained. "Our estimate from the feedback is that only 5-15 percent of Machinarium players actually paid for the game."
See, they didn't go to a torrent and read the total number of seeds, or anything like that.
They guessed based off some feedback.
now, back to your stupidity.
You realize that because of shit bags like you, there's a lot of people with the wrong info in the world? Because they are too stupid to look up stuff themselves, so they ask a question, then worse of worse, is a person, like you, who doesn't actually know the topic, but decides to answer questions based on what they think the people did, instead of actually looking it up (mainly since there is a link provided).
Is there an online part to this game? Can they see 10-20 times as many players online as how many have paid?
Or did they just find it on some torrent site and multiplied the number of downloads by a 1000 (and assumed they all liked the game and are still playing it)?
Why don't you try reading the fucking article and find out for yourself? The article isn't long as it clearly states that the people estimated the number based on feedback.
So basicly they are saying, that of the 100 people that downloaded the game, only 10 of them actually decided to pay it.
Cool. But that doesn't mean that 90 of the people that downloaded are playing it. How many of them tried it, didn't like it, and deleted it?
Here's a quote from the article:
"We released the game DRM-free which means it doesn’t include any anti-piracy protection, therefore the game doesn’t bother players serial codes or online authentication, but it’s also very easy to copy it," Amanita's Jakub Dvorsky explained. "Our estimate from the feedback is that only 5-15 percent of Machinarium players actually paid for the game."
They ESTIMATE, which means, they are fucking guessing.
Getting tried of this shit that is passed around as an excuse for journalism.
First off, piracy isn't news. Second off, this isn't even news, it's fucking speculation. Shit, it's worse then that, the companies is using piracy to promote their game. They are trying to lay a guilt trip on people to buy their game.
Ya, let's propagate that piracy is really bad on PC's, so we can sell our game, even though piracy isn't hurting our game at all. Nothing bad can come out of that, right?
They just lost any future sales from me for this marketing stunt.
it's a huge disappointment in nearly every respect
Sounds like exactly the kind of merchandise I would expect to see sold at KMart. For that matter, it is a pretty good summary of the KMart shopping experience.
I was debating modding you troll or replying... you can guess which won out.
First, when there aren't cheap, low end options, everyone complains - now, when there is an entry level option, you complain.
Second, KMart sells cheap stuff at cheap prices? OMFG!!!!! So the hell what? That's what they are there for. Not everyone can afford to buy a $500 bookcase or $200 pants. If you want something cheap, go to KMart. If you have the money to spend (or waste, depending on how much), then shop elsewhere.
It's really not like people go to KMart, expect to spend $20 on a bookcase, or $150 on an Android tablet and think they are getting top of the line products. KMart isnt trying to fool anyone, and no one is being fooled or is so deluded that they think anything different than what I outlined.
That's funny, I had a choice of using my mod points or replying to you, guess which won out?
Well, they didn't have a -1 Whoosh mod, so I decided to say it in person (well, post it)
While I'm not sure if it would still be worth migrating, due note that AmigaOS is still under active development on newer (PowerPC) hardware. Now, it's not exactly top of the line stuff - the latest AmigaOS boards are still only at 733mhz, but still, it's out there and kicking (barely anyways).
I've considered buying one of the machines in the past. They're around $750 IIRC. Would be a nice toy to play with. I wish the system was open sourced though. I can imagine the the possible boost in Amiga popularity (not sales, but at least interest and usage) would be a lot higher if it could be ran on commodity x86-64 hardware and was freely available for development.
I felt the same way. I figured Amiga should of accepted the linux kernel and made it's OS off of that.
But no, they wanted to follow suit of the companies before it and put out old hardware that was too expensive. Everyone and their grandma has a x86 cpu computer, but no, let's produce a new computer that is expensive for the small group of people we have and never worry about it actually being useful to anyone.
"Unfortunately, religion is not about evidence, it's about faith."
True, but some come to faith by evidence.
No, sorry. People come to faith by assuming that a "higher power" had something to do with something that happened or something that can't explain (or don't want to explain rationally).
"Which is why religion has caused humanity so much suffering over the milleniums."
Suffering is the human condition. Religion is merely one of the 'causes', and perhaps not the most common or greatest.
And some believers find solace and comfort, even relief, from their religion.
Suffering is NOT the human condition. That is lies told you to by humans that want to control you. It's also the excuse that people use (religons even) so they can do horrible things to other people. Religons have been about killing the "heathens" since man first thought it up. Oh, and controlling the masses.
Yes, some believers will find solace and comfort, even relief from their religion. They will also find that with drugs, sex, companionship, having a family, and well, not thinking they are better then everyone else because they believe that when they die, they'll go to heaven and all will be well.
Hey, if you want to live with blinders on, in a clueless sort of way, accepting that your a victim, on the chance that maybe, just maybe, you get to go to heaven after you die and everything will be cool, by all means, please do so.
God gave us the freedom to make our own choices in life and some people make very poor ones, including the choice to use religion for their own purposes or try and force others to believe as they do.
Actually, God didn't give man any freedom.
You see, god knows all, knows what your going to do, etc. So that means you have no free choice, seeing as God, who created all, and knows everything, already has your life planned out.
There's some scriptures to backup what I am saying.
Just so you understand, you can NOT have something that knows everything that has and will happen, that created everything, then say man has free choice. How can we have free choice? If god already knows what I've done in my life, I'm not choosing anything, I'm living life how he has me do it.
And you do realize what this implies?
There isn't a god, man has once again used the stupidity of mankind to control others. And not only that, did such a poor job on the subject material it used as to leave big clues, yet people seem to gloss over them.
You do have a choice. It's to either accept that your on your own, or to keep believing in fantasy. either way, it changes nothing in your life, since beliefs in god, or not believing in god, has really nothing to do with living life.
I'm not fucking paying over $5 for a ebook. ever. If you can't grasp that simple concept, don't bitch when your books get pirated. I'll pay $15 for a hardback book. I'll pay $8 for a softback book. But an ebook? $5, max.
You see, I can pirate what I want for free. Do you grasp this simple concept? I can get what I want for free. But I'm not an asshole (well, I am, but that's another post), I'm letting you know that I would be willing to pay $5 per ebook, instead of downloading them for free.
If you, the book publishers, want to go hold on to your old ways (get off my lawn) like some stupid old person who can't get with reality, that's fine. Free works in my budget better. But see, like I said, i'm not an asshole (lies), i'm trying to work with ya here.
So, when you realize that making $5 from someone is better then making nothing from that person, for some text, then i'm sure you'll change your prices to reflect that.
First off, it saves someone driving around, waste gas, time, going thru peoples property, risking animal attacks, etc.
You build something, get the permit. If you don't get the permit, make sure you can't see what you built from the sky.
Ya, the gov needs money. So expect this, and everything else they've been lax on to be happening.
those unpaid parking tickets they normally did nothing about? Don't be surprised when your car is missing, probably got towed. And hey, if you don't have the money to pay it, you can buy it back at the next auction.
You cannot bring a laptop into a standardized test, that's why TI cares. The only real business TI has with its graphing calculators is high school (and to some extent, middle school) students, and only because the teachers are under the illusion that the calculators cannot do everything that a laptop can do.
Back in the mid 80's, when i was in high school. We had a science test where we were allowed to bring in calculators to do the math problems with. I had one of those Tandy hand held calculators/computers that had like 1k memory & did basic. I programmed that full of the various stuff I need to know, not as a program, but a bunch of rem statements. lol
Ya, I did well on that test, which i wouldn't of otherwise. So i can understand why TI would be so anal about it, but what they don't realize is schools can easily by pass using any calculators at all for test.
Write a program for tests. One that has a built in calculator (one that can be made to be scientic, or normal, depending on the test. Have all the computers being monitored by the teacher, sheesh, put webcams on them so you can see the desk the students are on. If someone trys to alt-enter to the desktop, besides having that turned off, it alerts the teacher. and whatever else is needed.
In fact, if I was TI, i would of already designed a program for that, and would of been marketing it to schools.
I bet the Android rootkit isn't the only rootkit on that CD... I for one wouldn't put anything I obtained at DefCon into any equipment I owned. Maybe not even into my shredder.
Ya, that happened to me. Had a disc with some virus & trojans on it. I put it in my electric shredder and sure enough, my shredder got infected. Then it, using the electric outlet, infected my oven, my fridge, my alarm clock and dang it, my computer.
I think you and many others on your side of the fence are missing something important. You know those cheap tiny "locks" that come with so many little boxes or other devices? The ones that all have the same key? Would you consider using those to lock anything important up? I'm guessing you wouldn't. You probably realize that they are too weak even to be considered a lock at all.
That brings up a funny story.
When I was in 9th grade, I used one of those cheap locks to lock up my gym/tennis crap (just tennis shorts, shoes, nothing big) and someone broke it open to steal my shorts. Well, seeing as they are tennis shorts, and only people that play tennis usually wear them, it wasn't hard for me to figure out who stoled them.
So what did I do?
Nothing. He was a big thug and it wasn't worth me getting my ass kicked.
I've noticed a 0-day vulnerability in old ladies in that I can hit them over the head with a cudgel and steal their handbags. I'm going to a black-hat muggers conference to hand out cudgels and more detailed instruction. But that doesn't make be an utter scumbag, oh no. I'm a "security researcher", that's what I am, only interested in increased security for old ladies.
Sorry, My Great-Great-Great-notsoGreat-Grandfather patented this back in 1800's. It's in public domain now.
First, we make a rocket that can get to the moon. it doesn't have to come back, just get there. it doesn't need to land. (it can crash when it's done, so maybe make it biodegradeable).
Have it aim to fly over the robot, then it drops a big ass magnet out of it's side, picks the robot up as it goes by, then drops it down somewhere else.
Hopefully the magnet will have the affect of rebooting the robot's system, and not wiping out any data.
There ya go.
My other idea was to tell whomever about all the pirated music & movies that robot was carrying on it, then I realized they'd just use lobbiest to get the politicains to go up and get it.
Celestial bodies do not surround us. The sun and the moon together cover less than 1/100,000th of the sky.
Really? so you are saying the universe is flat, and the earth is off in a corner where nothing but the sun and moon are around it?
Seems to me, that the universe is in at least 3 Dimensions, and no matter which direction we go, we are going to hit some "celestial" body.
And considering Celestial bodies means naturally occurring physical entities, associations or structures that current science has demonstrated to exist in outer space, but not including earth, seems that maybe your a bit wrong on your last part there.
If I had alzheimers to the point where I was wandering off into the woods somewhere, unable to get home, I don't think I'd like to be "rescued" with a GPS device. My own grandfather (alzheimers) tried to commit suicide at least once by sitting in his car in his garage with the engine turned on. He was found and "rescued". He lived to a somewhat older age, with all the dignity of a crazy old man, not knowing who most of his relatives were, shitting his pants, etc. I hope my relatives don't keep me around against my will as a still technically living reminder of the person I once was.
As the usual proportion of baby boomers start to become demented, I hope we will see some more realism about what dementia is. There will be a lot of demented people and the associated problems will become commonly experienced. Car accidents for one. It's not going to be pretty.
As long as it's on youtube, i'm cool with it.
Anyways, it's karma for those same baby boomers dropping the ball in the 80's, when they decided to become yuppies and leave their hippy ideas behind.
Hell, I'm even worried about computer games. I collect old Macs and games to play on them. While the machines are still out there, various accessories for such are getting harder to find as are the actual games. While on the PC, theoretically, they'll play on a newer machine, the Mac platform has had a couple of changes of processor types that make sit hard to carry software over. Classic isn't even an option on the Intel Mac. There are tons of old games for the Mac toasters alone that formed a good deal of early computer gaming history and are still fun to play: Net Trek, Lunar Rescue, Ancient Art of War, etc. Every now and then I find a copy to buy, but I don't even have the games I played on an those old Macs, let alone the ones I never got to play.
I bet that even really old PC games have lots of issues, if you can track them down. I don't even want to think about what has happened to hardware and games for the old Apple ][s.
Okay, first off, all the old software, C64, Apple II's, Mac's, PC have been saved. They are online in various places. Some illegal, some legal, but you can get them.
As for working hardware, I have working C64's, Apple II's, etc. And guess what? People still make hardware for them. I recently bought a card to put into my apple's that lets me use compact flash cards.
And guess what? Those old macs? You can still find them, for cheap and working.
I think the problem is, you start assuming and don't bother doing any checking. In other words, you accept a conclusion that you made that was based on you being too lazy to actually do any real checking on the subject.
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Geez, what kind of world am I living in?
Your living in a capitalistic world that is being overran and controlled by corporations.
While Capitalism isn't bad, uncontrolled corporations with power to influence policy & law makers is bad, very, very bad.
Corporations exist to make as much money for their shareholders as possible. That is it. Anything else is secondary.
And when you don't regulate corporations, don't limit their power, you get corruption, and lots of companies doing what they want to make money and not caring about the long term outcome.
Sad part is, i'm not being funny, sarcastic, or talking shit. This crap is real and has been happening all around us.
They are just comparing sales with completed torrents. It's actually a conservative estimate since there are other forms of piracy like private servers.
Wow, your a fucking idiot.
You didn't read the article, but decided to answer a question about it?
here ya go, ya dumb ass
"We released the game DRM-free which means it doesn’t include any anti-piracy protection, therefore the game doesn’t bother players serial codes or online authentication, but it’s also very easy to copy it," Amanita's Jakub Dvorsky explained. "Our estimate from the feedback is that only 5-15 percent of Machinarium players actually paid for the game."
See, they didn't go to a torrent and read the total number of seeds, or anything like that.
They guessed based off some feedback.
now, back to your stupidity.
You realize that because of shit bags like you, there's a lot of people with the wrong info in the world? Because they are too stupid to look up stuff themselves, so they ask a question, then worse of worse, is a person, like you, who doesn't actually know the topic, but decides to answer questions based on what they think the people did, instead of actually looking it up (mainly since there is a link provided).
you suck.
Is there an online part to this game? Can they see 10-20 times as many players online as how many have paid?
Or did they just find it on some torrent site and multiplied the number of downloads by a 1000 (and assumed they all liked the game and are still playing it)?
Why don't you try reading the fucking article and find out for yourself? The article isn't long as it clearly states that the people estimated the number based on feedback.
So basicly they are saying, that of the 100 people that downloaded the game, only 10 of them actually decided to pay it.
Cool. But that doesn't mean that 90 of the people that downloaded are playing it. How many of them tried it, didn't like it, and deleted it?
Here's a quote from the article:
"We released the game DRM-free which means it doesn’t include any anti-piracy protection, therefore the game doesn’t bother players serial codes or online authentication, but it’s also very easy to copy it," Amanita's Jakub Dvorsky explained. "Our estimate from the feedback is that only 5-15 percent of Machinarium players actually paid for the game."
They ESTIMATE, which means, they are fucking guessing.
Getting tried of this shit that is passed around as an excuse for journalism.
First off, piracy isn't news.
Second off, this isn't even news, it's fucking speculation. Shit, it's worse then that, the companies is using piracy to promote their game. They are trying to lay a guilt trip on people to buy their game.
Ya, let's propagate that piracy is really bad on PC's, so we can sell our game, even though piracy isn't hurting our game at all. Nothing bad can come out of that, right?
They just lost any future sales from me for this marketing stunt.
it's a huge disappointment in nearly every respect
Sounds like exactly the kind of merchandise I would expect to see sold at KMart. For that matter, it is a pretty good summary of the KMart shopping experience.
I was debating modding you troll or replying... you can guess which won out.
First, when there aren't cheap, low end options, everyone complains - now, when there is an entry level option, you complain.
Second, KMart sells cheap stuff at cheap prices? OMFG!!!!! So the hell what? That's what they are there for. Not everyone can afford to buy a $500 bookcase or $200 pants. If you want something cheap, go to KMart. If you have the money to spend (or waste, depending on how much), then shop elsewhere.
It's really not like people go to KMart, expect to spend $20 on a bookcase, or $150 on an Android tablet and think they are getting top of the line products. KMart isnt trying to fool anyone, and no one is being fooled or is so deluded that they think anything different than what I outlined.
That's funny, I had a choice of using my mod points or replying to you, guess which won out?
Well, they didn't have a -1 Whoosh mod, so I decided to say it in person (well, post it)
Whoosh dude, whoosh.
While I'm not sure if it would still be worth migrating, due note that AmigaOS is still under active development on newer (PowerPC) hardware. Now, it's not exactly top of the line stuff - the latest AmigaOS boards are still only at 733mhz, but still, it's out there and kicking (barely anyways).
I've considered buying one of the machines in the past. They're around $750 IIRC. Would be a nice toy to play with. I wish the system was open sourced though. I can imagine the the possible boost in Amiga popularity (not sales, but at least interest and usage) would be a lot higher if it could be ran on commodity x86-64 hardware and was freely available for development.
I felt the same way. I figured Amiga should of accepted the linux kernel and made it's OS off of that.
But no, they wanted to follow suit of the companies before it and put out old hardware that was too expensive. Everyone and their grandma has a x86 cpu computer, but no, let's produce a new computer that is expensive for the small group of people we have and never worry about it actually being useful to anyone.
Apparently Amiga is cursed or something.
When did Who ever say we were his favourites?
Let's see. He spends a lot of time on earth, and likes to pick up "traveling companions" usually female, and younger.
How many aliens have we seen him traveling around with? There's been a few, but mostly earth females.
So ya, I'd say this is one of his favorites places to go.
"Unfortunately, religion is not about evidence, it's about faith."
True, but some come to faith by evidence.
No, sorry. People come to faith by assuming that a "higher power" had something to do with something that happened or something that can't explain (or don't want to explain rationally).
"Which is why religion has caused humanity so much suffering over the milleniums."
Suffering is the human condition. Religion is merely one of the 'causes', and perhaps not the most common or greatest.
And some believers find solace and comfort, even relief, from their religion.
Suffering is NOT the human condition. That is lies told you to by humans that want to control you. It's also the excuse that people use (religons even) so they can do horrible things to other people. Religons have been about killing the "heathens" since man first thought it up. Oh, and controlling the masses.
Yes, some believers will find solace and comfort, even relief from their religion. They will also find that with drugs, sex, companionship, having a family, and well, not thinking they are better then everyone else because they believe that when they die, they'll go to heaven and all will be well.
Hey, if you want to live with blinders on, in a clueless sort of way, accepting that your a victim, on the chance that maybe, just maybe, you get to go to heaven after you die and everything will be cool, by all means, please do so.
God gave us the freedom to make our own choices in life and some people make very poor ones, including the choice to use religion for their own purposes or try and force others to believe as they do.
Actually, God didn't give man any freedom.
You see, god knows all, knows what your going to do, etc. So that means you have no free choice, seeing as God, who created all, and knows everything, already has your life planned out.
http://www.equip.org/perspectives/omniscience-does-god-know-all-things
There's some scriptures to backup what I am saying.
Just so you understand, you can NOT have something that knows everything that has and will happen, that created everything, then say man has free choice. How can we have free choice? If god already knows what I've done in my life, I'm not choosing anything, I'm living life how he has me do it.
And you do realize what this implies?
There isn't a god, man has once again used the stupidity of mankind to control others. And not only that, did such a poor job on the subject material it used as to leave big clues, yet people seem to gloss over them.
You do have a choice. It's to either accept that your on your own, or to keep believing in fantasy. either way, it changes nothing in your life, since beliefs in god, or not believing in god, has really nothing to do with living life.
Even the original article has been updated to say the initial knee jerk reaction was wrong.
And apparently Slashdot's editors, probably for more ad impressions, decided to overlook it and post this anyway.
Why you must be new here. (looks at UID, 2822) hmm...
Torchlight is very fun to play using Nvidia's 3D Vision. Game looks great, and very few things get in the way of the 3D experience.
One of the games I enjoy with mine. Titan's Quest is another similar game that looks great in 3D also.
I guess the USA was feeling left out with the whole Muhammad thing.
Now we got the FBI Seal which you shall not make images of, or the fbi gets butthurt.
Okay, you stupid corporate pigs.
ya, you.
I'm not fucking paying over $5 for a ebook. ever. If you can't grasp that simple concept, don't bitch when your books get pirated.
I'll pay $15 for a hardback book. I'll pay $8 for a softback book. But an ebook? $5, max.
You see, I can pirate what I want for free. Do you grasp this simple concept? I can get what I want for free. But I'm not an asshole (well, I am, but that's another post), I'm letting you know that I would be willing to pay $5 per ebook, instead of downloading them for free.
If you, the book publishers, want to go hold on to your old ways (get off my lawn) like some stupid old person who can't get with reality, that's fine. Free works in my budget better. But see, like I said, i'm not an asshole (lies), i'm trying to work with ya here.
So, when you realize that making $5 from someone is better then making nothing from that person, for some text, then i'm sure you'll change your prices to reflect that.
This isn't that big of a deal.
But my question is, how do the people fit into the bus? They are like towering over it.
I don't have a problem with this.
First off, it saves someone driving around, waste gas, time, going thru peoples property, risking animal attacks, etc.
You build something, get the permit. If you don't get the permit, make sure you can't see what you built from the sky.
Ya, the gov needs money. So expect this, and everything else they've been lax on to be happening.
those unpaid parking tickets they normally did nothing about? Don't be surprised when your car is missing, probably got towed. And hey, if you don't have the money to pay it, you can buy it back at the next auction.
"Boring film... losing... consciousness." ----- (That's a tick reference for our younger viewers.)
It lost the funny when you included an explanation.
You cannot bring a laptop into a standardized test, that's why TI cares. The only real business TI has with its graphing calculators is high school (and to some extent, middle school) students, and only because the teachers are under the illusion that the calculators cannot do everything that a laptop can do.
Back in the mid 80's, when i was in high school. We had a science test where we were allowed to bring in calculators to do the math problems with. I had one of those Tandy hand held calculators/computers that had like 1k memory & did basic. I programmed that full of the various stuff I need to know, not as a program, but a bunch of rem statements. lol
Ya, I did well on that test, which i wouldn't of otherwise. So i can understand why TI would be so anal about it, but what they don't realize is schools can easily by pass using any calculators at all for test.
Write a program for tests. One that has a built in calculator (one that can be made to be scientic, or normal, depending on the test.
Have all the computers being monitored by the teacher, sheesh, put webcams on them so you can see the desk the students are on. If someone trys to alt-enter to the desktop, besides having that turned off, it alerts the teacher. and whatever else is needed.
In fact, if I was TI, i would of already designed a program for that, and would of been marketing it to schools.
I bet the Android rootkit isn't the only rootkit on that CD... I for one wouldn't put anything I obtained at DefCon into any equipment I owned. Maybe not even into my shredder.
Ya, that happened to me. Had a disc with some virus & trojans on it. I put it in my electric shredder and sure enough, my shredder got infected. Then it, using the electric outlet, infected my oven, my fridge, my alarm clock and dang it, my computer.
That's why you should never shred anything.
I think you and many others on your side of the fence are missing something important. You know those cheap tiny "locks" that come with so many little boxes or other devices? The ones that all have the same key? Would you consider using those to lock anything important up? I'm guessing you wouldn't. You probably realize that they are too weak even to be considered a lock at all.
That brings up a funny story.
When I was in 9th grade, I used one of those cheap locks to lock up my gym/tennis crap (just tennis shorts, shoes, nothing big) and someone broke it open to steal my shorts. Well, seeing as they are tennis shorts, and only people that play tennis usually wear them, it wasn't hard for me to figure out who stoled them.
So what did I do?
Nothing. He was a big thug and it wasn't worth me getting my ass kicked.
I've noticed a 0-day vulnerability in old ladies in that I can hit them over the head with a cudgel and steal their handbags. I'm going to a black-hat muggers conference to hand out cudgels and more detailed instruction. But that doesn't make be an utter scumbag, oh no. I'm a "security researcher", that's what I am, only interested in increased security for old ladies.
Sorry, My Great-Great-Great-notsoGreat-Grandfather patented this back in 1800's. It's in public domain now.
Man, it's so simple, I should get hired at Nasa.
First, we make a rocket that can get to the moon. it doesn't have to come back, just get there. it doesn't need to land. (it can crash when it's done, so maybe make it biodegradeable).
Have it aim to fly over the robot, then it drops a big ass magnet out of it's side, picks the robot up as it goes by, then drops it down somewhere else.
Hopefully the magnet will have the affect of rebooting the robot's system, and not wiping out any data.
There ya go.
My other idea was to tell whomever about all the pirated music & movies that robot was carrying on it, then I realized they'd just use lobbiest to get the politicains to go up and get it.
I have a problem with this. At least, as I've always understood it, Broadway shows were lives shows. Which should include the musicians.
So they replace a few live players. Next season you lose the piano, then you lose the cellos, etc.
Pretty soon, your watching a film of the "live show".
I don't go see broadway plays, so this doesn't affect me, but I totally see it as a bad trend, going the wrong direction.
Broadway is about live shows, live musicians. Isn't that why they charge higher ticket prices then the movies?
Celestial bodies do not surround us. The sun and the moon together cover less than 1/100,000th of the sky.
Really? so you are saying the universe is flat, and the earth is off in a corner where nothing but the sun and moon are around it?
Seems to me, that the universe is in at least 3 Dimensions, and no matter which direction we go, we are going to hit some "celestial" body.
And considering Celestial bodies means naturally occurring physical entities, associations or structures that current science has demonstrated to exist in outer space, but not including earth, seems that maybe your a bit wrong on your last part there.
If I had alzheimers to the point where I was wandering off into the woods somewhere, unable to get home, I don't think I'd like to be "rescued" with a GPS device. My own grandfather (alzheimers) tried to commit suicide at least once by sitting in his car in his garage with the engine turned on. He was found and "rescued". He lived to a somewhat older age, with all the dignity of a crazy old man, not knowing who most of his relatives were, shitting his pants, etc. I hope my relatives don't keep me around against my will as a still technically living reminder of the person I once was.
As the usual proportion of baby boomers start to become demented, I hope we will see some more realism about what dementia is. There will be a lot of demented people and the associated problems will become commonly experienced. Car accidents for one. It's not going to be pretty.
As long as it's on youtube, i'm cool with it.
Anyways, it's karma for those same baby boomers dropping the ball in the 80's, when they decided to become yuppies and leave their hippy ideas behind.
Hell, I'm even worried about computer games. I collect old Macs and games to play on them. While the machines are still out there, various accessories for such are getting harder to find as are the actual games. While on the PC, theoretically, they'll play on a newer machine, the Mac platform has had a couple of changes of processor types that make sit hard to carry software over. Classic isn't even an option on the Intel Mac. There are tons of old games for the Mac toasters alone that formed a good deal of early computer gaming history and are still fun to play: Net Trek, Lunar Rescue, Ancient Art of War, etc. Every now and then I find a copy to buy, but I don't even have the games I played on an those old Macs, let alone the ones I never got to play.
I bet that even really old PC games have lots of issues, if you can track them down. I don't even want to think about what has happened to hardware and games for the old Apple ][s.
Okay, first off, all the old software, C64, Apple II's, Mac's, PC have been saved. They are online in various places. Some illegal, some legal, but you can get them.
As for working hardware, I have working C64's, Apple II's, etc. And guess what? People still make hardware for them. I recently bought a card to put into my apple's that lets me use compact flash cards.
And guess what? Those old macs? You can still find them, for cheap and working.
I think the problem is, you start assuming and don't bother doing any checking. In other words, you accept a conclusion that you made that was based on you being too lazy to actually do any real checking on the subject.