Same here. When I went to Mexico the coke tasted way better than what I'm used to in the US. I figured it was some combination of the glass bottle + me being generally happy since I was on vacation. I never bothered to think that it would actually have different ingredients.
There are a lot more uses for cyborg'ish tech than simply being a more efficient worker bee at the office.
Need to calculate 356.31 * 2.4168. If you can't think of a situation in your daily life where you would need to do calculations like this, then you wouldn't be on/.. Well, either you could carry a calculator with you all the time, or you could just offload the calculation to your built-in math chip, and get the answer back instantly in your mind. Think of the emergent behavior your mind would come up with if it could effortlessly carry out sequential math calculations with the speed and precision of a computer...
Another "cool thing" would be in-your-mind-internet/encyclopedia. Suppose you are hiking in the mountains, and you come across a bear. You aren't 100% sure what type of bear it is, or its intentions and behavioral patterns, or what you should do if it starts acting agressively (this has happened to me). Think of how useful built-in google/wikipedia would be. In your mind do an image search for bears, identify the species, check the relevant reference articles, and determine the best course of action.
6th, 7th, 8th, and more senses could be added. I drool at the idea of heat-sensing, sonar, enhanced vision, GPS, etc directly wired into your mind as if they were other senses.
Heck, you could even implement effective telepathy via wireless technology.
That's just scratching the surface.
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240M is pocket change in today's financial markets.
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If you observe a particle, its wavefunction collapses in an irreversable process. Before the measurement is made, there is no way to know for sure where the particle will collapse to when you observe it (You just have a wavefunction of probability amplitudes), and so it the position of the particle is not deterministic. Thus Einstein's comment "God does not play dice". The weird thing is that if you could never actually observe anything, the universe _would_ be deterministic. The wavefunctions that describe the probability amplitudes would just spread out and interact in a perfectly predictable way via wave mechanics.
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Hey, thats a serious point - the world is not flat, the earth is not the center of the solar system, objects in motion do not naturally tend to stop without outside influence, the world was not made in 7 days, time is not independant of your frame of reference, at a microscopic level the world is not deterministic, etc... Often the most fundamental discoveries in science show that we don't know what we thought we knew.
King's holly reproduces via cloning. So although the genetics of a current King's holly may be exactly the same as its great-great-...-grandparent 43,000 years ago, it is (at least by my definition) a different plant. If you took a plant and cloned it in the lab, you would be hard-pressed to claim that the clone is the same plant as the origional.
I suspect most of the Slashdot readers currently whining about how "why does everything have to be based on real facts" would turn the TV off in disgust if the next episode of "24" featured a nuclear bomb stolen by leprechauns
Am I the only one who thinks an episode like that would own? Leprechauns are fucking awesome. Especially evil ones. 'nuff said.
There is almost a direct one-to-one correlation between doing homework and excelling in classes.
If by "excelling in classes", you mean getting a good grade then yeah, thats by design. Homework counts towards your grade, so if you do it you get a better grade. On the other hand if you mean better overall understanding of the material then I call BS. Until you show some solid evidence, I'm sticking to my personal experience which dictates exactly the opposite.
Boo YAH! Its about time Jackie Chan's Drunken Master II got recognized. Some of my favorite all time martial arts sequences are in that movie, and the plot/dialogue is so blatantly bad its hillarious. Basically its the epitome of martial arts movies.
Top 100 Greatest movie of all time? Nah. Top 100 Most enjoyable movie of all time? Hell yes!
Clearly there is rampant downloading of TV shows. Although the big companies are having a hissy fit about it, to me it is a sign that there is a huge untapped market, much in the same way as the napster phenomenon was indicative of a market for legal downloading mp3's (which iTunes took advantage of). All they have to do is this:
1: Offer fast TV downloads for free, or offer legal torrents.
2: Include the advertisements in the shows, and track how many people download them.
If you take any random disturbance to daily activities and multiply it times millions and millions of people, you are going to get a staggering number. However, what those calculations fail to take into account are secondary, tertiary, etc effects on the economy. TFA even points this out:
"It will result in increased spending on movie tickets and refreshments, increased foreign and domestic tourism, and increased business in shops near the theaters," Challenger said.
This is not like a security guard that sits at the front desk - its like a security policy that requires a full body search every time someone enters the building. ie: sacrificing employee's privacy to protect company interests.
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Also it takes considerably less time than 1 second to delete spam, and adding to that spam filters probably blocked a large portion of that spam.
Windows Overlook: it seems nice at first, but if you use it for long enough you go crazy and become an axe murderer.
Same here. When I went to Mexico the coke tasted way better than what I'm used to in the US. I figured it was some combination of the glass bottle + me being generally happy since I was on vacation. I never bothered to think that it would actually have different ingredients.
He's not a liar - just temporally challenged.
Except in Nebraska.
There are a lot more uses for cyborg'ish tech than simply being a more efficient worker bee at the office.
/.. Well, either you could carry a calculator with you all the time, or you could just offload the calculation to your built-in math chip, and get the answer back instantly in your mind. Think of the emergent behavior your mind would come up with if it could effortlessly carry out sequential math calculations with the speed and precision of a computer...
Need to calculate 356.31 * 2.4168. If you can't think of a situation in your daily life where you would need to do calculations like this, then you wouldn't be on
Another "cool thing" would be in-your-mind-internet/encyclopedia. Suppose you are hiking in the mountains, and you come across a bear. You aren't 100% sure what type of bear it is, or its intentions and behavioral patterns, or what you should do if it starts acting agressively (this has happened to me). Think of how useful built-in google/wikipedia would be. In your mind do an image search for bears, identify the species, check the relevant reference articles, and determine the best course of action.
6th, 7th, 8th, and more senses could be added. I drool at the idea of heat-sensing, sonar, enhanced vision, GPS, etc directly wired into your mind as if they were other senses.
Heck, you could even implement effective telepathy via wireless technology.
That's just scratching the surface.
240M is pocket change in today's financial markets.
If you observe a particle, its wavefunction collapses in an irreversable process. Before the measurement is made, there is no way to know for sure where the particle will collapse to when you observe it (You just have a wavefunction of probability amplitudes), and so it the position of the particle is not deterministic. Thus Einstein's comment "God does not play dice". The weird thing is that if you could never actually observe anything, the universe _would_ be deterministic. The wavefunctions that describe the probability amplitudes would just spread out and interact in a perfectly predictable way via wave mechanics.
Hey, thats a serious point - the world is not flat, the earth is not the center of the solar system, objects in motion do not naturally tend to stop without outside influence, the world was not made in 7 days, time is not independant of your frame of reference, at a microscopic level the world is not deterministic, etc... Often the most fundamental discoveries in science show that we don't know what we thought we knew.
King's holly reproduces via cloning. So although the genetics of a current King's holly may be exactly the same as its great-great-...-grandparent 43,000 years ago, it is (at least by my definition) a different plant. If you took a plant and cloned it in the lab, you would be hard-pressed to claim that the clone is the same plant as the origional.
Joe-Bob: Why, back in the day I caught the biggest fish you've ever seen!
Jimmy: How big?
Joe-Bob: At least 2 grizzly bears!
Jimmy: American or European?
Joe-Bob: Huh? I-- I don't know that! Auuuuuuugh!
Reminds me of when the government approved cutting down the oldest living thing on earth.
The main difference between interesting and insightful posts is that insightful posts contain an element of flamebait.
Am I the only one who thinks an episode like that would own? Leprechauns are fucking awesome. Especially evil ones. 'nuff said.
...yaaay...
If by "excelling in classes", you mean getting a good grade then yeah, thats by design. Homework counts towards your grade, so if you do it you get a better grade. On the other hand if you mean better overall understanding of the material then I call BS. Until you show some solid evidence, I'm sticking to my personal experience which dictates exactly the opposite.
Boo YAH! Its about time Jackie Chan's Drunken Master II got recognized. Some of my favorite all time martial arts sequences are in that movie, and the plot/dialogue is so blatantly bad its hillarious. Basically its the epitome of martial arts movies.
Top 100 Greatest movie of all time? Nah. Top 100 Most enjoyable movie of all time? Hell yes!
Clearly there is rampant downloading of TV shows. Although the big companies are having a hissy fit about it, to me it is a sign that there is a huge untapped market, much in the same way as the napster phenomenon was indicative of a market for legal downloading mp3's (which iTunes took advantage of). All they have to do is this:
1: Offer fast TV downloads for free, or offer legal torrents.
2: Include the advertisements in the shows, and track how many people download them.
3: Profit!!!
Thats the beauty of math. It doesn't matter who you are, or what sources you have. If you're right, you're right.
This is not like a security guard that sits at the front desk - its like a security policy that requires a full body search every time someone enters the building. ie: sacrificing employee's privacy to protect company interests.
With that said, the cut-scene engine is excellent,
There are no cut scenes in HL2.
I'd say that its either a joke or a freudian slip... he does a lot of the slashdot polls.
megalomania, religious flagwaving egotism, and the 'membership' into the 'Big Fat Christian Gun-Toting Whiteman kicks the Worlds Ass' Society
Fuck Yeah! (not quite work safe)