Your right, Asimov didn't wright the iRobot script. However he did wright the Foundation novles (pleas remove your hats out of respect) and R. Daneel Olivaw was in charge of the government in them.
Todd the T1000 scares me, I don't think he knows I have a right to exist. He sits in my favorite chair and dares me, and when I look over he is making a fist, one finger at a time.
Agreed. This is science taking from it's environment and making something more (Primer quote). It's shows that if you look at what information you have from a different perspective you can find lost of intriguing patterns and learn lots of new things. It is amazing what you can learn by throwing data into a spreadsheet and then looking for order.
Never build your own house, because they will be able to check records for permits and know your house is custom and then know to check for radio shielding. It is better to buy something run down and let it stay that way, while living in another house in another state. I may have said too much.
Oh, I've got that covered. Copper pipes in the walls, outside of my shielding, are used for heat transfer. I can make my home look thermally normal despite the fact that I house a fusion generator. Obviously it is in one of the lower sub basements, and above the sprite cans.
Looking like a cyborg is good, because the other cyborgs won't try to assimilate you. However, it is important to have a radio transmitter with you everyplace so that you are broadcasting some sort of radio signal at all times. Now, at home, it is still better to line your walls with aluminum foil, but you need to do so INSIDE the walls, behind the drywall, because you don't want the government drones seeing it. You should line your attic as well, but not your basement, because The Worms are attracted to foil. In your basement you should use lots and lots of crushed cans. Sprite cans works best.
That's nothing. Once I was stuck on a planet so primitive that the inhabitants thought digital watches and mobile phones are a good idea. And I'm still stuck.
I have never said this before but...Boy I wish I had mod points. (I might have but I don't think so). Calvin and Hobbes is by far one of the most insightful things I have ever read. Yet to most people it is still 'low art' and the same goes for the Guide. It is smart, funny, and so obviously about humanity that if the Vogans showed had little tags that read 'post office' or 'DMV' it would go quickly from funny to sadly real. Anyway, +5 insightful
And in the early days of Linux. I remember my first look at Linux ever. I was given the option of over ten graphical interfaces. Now the major slug fest is between KDE and Gnome. Nether is perfect, and some cool stuff got lost along the way, but things are more cohesive now.
I think I would add FUN to that list. The C64 was fun to play with (programing or games). I remember one time my dad, big brother, and me hooked up our Commodore up to our Betamax VCR and recorded about eight hours of dig-dug. We took turns playing a marathon game and by the end of it we had about 20 roses and the fruit you got after dropping two rocks was any number of weird things, from the dig dug guy to a rock. I can't imagine iPhone ever being so much fun.
Right, I can set up a bunch of profiles or...I could just only give some one the number I want them to have. Perhaps this makes me not geeky enough, but their will never be a technological solution to a social problem.
I only give my mobile number out sparingly. I tell most people to call my land line. I do this because I don't want to be accessible to every one all the time. Most calls can wait. If I had this service it would mean more relatives calling me up while driving to tell me to go on line and look at some random news story. Right now, I think I'll stick with having two numbers.
I'm not being 'snarkey', the 'charm smart people to work for you' is normal for the good CEO. The founder of Kinko's was famous for saying he was just smart enough to higher the A+ students and make them like him. I think it was Rockefeller who said you hire smart people who arn't millionaires and make them millionaires and they will do anything for you. I'm just pointing out that Job's is a CEO and his job is to take credit and be a figure head. He's brilliant, but he doesn't have visions of the future in the middle of the night and then spend months without food or sleep building the first iPod all by him self...Your right, I'm being snarkey. But about fanboys, not Jobs.
Yes, it seems like Jobs wants to have his name on stuff for the cool factor. 'Look what I did.' Even when he didn't do all that much.
Reminds me of a boss I once had that would openly take credit for anything and everything he gave advice on. We could spend weeks on a project, he would swoop in at the last second and say something like 'it should be blue' and then next week he would tell every one that he designed and built the whole thing from scratch with every one sitting cross legged on the floor in awe and worshiping him. I quit after not too long. The man is a jerk.
The thing is he was very charming, and the people who he could charm were very talented and were always doing amazing things. In the end they were so enamored of him that they just let him take credit.
I think that might be the secret of The Jobs in the end. People love him enough that they WANT him to take their ideas. Once he has a few super smart people like that (aka The Woz) and a few major stunningly great products on the market you can pick up more super smart people and the cycle repeats it self.
Don't get me wrong, Jobs is a brilliant engender and programmer, but I think he is not as brilliant as his patent portfolio suggests.
The first issue needs to be reduction. We use too much stuff. Period. The second issue is finding substitutes. If we start with step two it won't any good what so ever. If I eat too many Twinkies and I switch to whole wheat bread and organic butter, but I don't eat less, it's not a net change. If I eat fewer Twinkies then I'm better off.
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Sounds like a something from The Scarlet Pimpernel..."Would you like to see some magic?"
Yea, right. I'm half Pacific Islander, I don't think my three facial hairs will do much good.
Your right, Asimov didn't wright the iRobot script. However he did wright the Foundation novles (pleas remove your hats out of respect) and R. Daneel Olivaw was in charge of the government in them.
Todd the T1000 scares me, I don't think he knows I have a right to exist. He sits in my favorite chair and dares me, and when I look over he is making a fist, one finger at a time.
Agreed. This is science taking from it's environment and making something more (Primer quote). It's shows that if you look at what information you have from a different perspective you can find lost of intriguing patterns and learn lots of new things. It is amazing what you can learn by throwing data into a spreadsheet and then looking for order.
Never build your own house, because they will be able to check records for permits and know your house is custom and then know to check for radio shielding. It is better to buy something run down and let it stay that way, while living in another house in another state. I may have said too much.
Oh, I've got that covered. Copper pipes in the walls, outside of my shielding, are used for heat transfer. I can make my home look thermally normal despite the fact that I house a fusion generator. Obviously it is in one of the lower sub basements, and above the sprite cans.
Looking like a cyborg is good, because the other cyborgs won't try to assimilate you. However, it is important to have a radio transmitter with you everyplace so that you are broadcasting some sort of radio signal at all times. Now, at home, it is still better to line your walls with aluminum foil, but you need to do so INSIDE the walls, behind the drywall, because you don't want the government drones seeing it. You should line your attic as well, but not your basement, because The Worms are attracted to foil. In your basement you should use lots and lots of crushed cans. Sprite cans works best.
That's nothing. Once I was stuck on a planet so primitive that the inhabitants thought digital watches and mobile phones are a good idea. And I'm still stuck.
The wood is for the frame that the cheese is inside of. Duh.
I have never said this before but...Boy I wish I had mod points. (I might have but I don't think so). Calvin and Hobbes is by far one of the most insightful things I have ever read. Yet to most people it is still 'low art' and the same goes for the Guide. It is smart, funny, and so obviously about humanity that if the Vogans showed had little tags that read 'post office' or 'DMV' it would go quickly from funny to sadly real. Anyway, +5 insightful
I'm shocked he didn't include his e-mail address.
you don't believe we are on the EVE of destruction
And in the early days of Linux. I remember my first look at Linux ever. I was given the option of over ten graphical interfaces. Now the major slug fest is between KDE and Gnome. Nether is perfect, and some cool stuff got lost along the way, but things are more cohesive now.
Hay, no talking bad about Linux...er...never mind.
It's 3rd arm, second head, and a space ship that looks like a shoe.
That's why I would use an air ship. Duh.
I think I would add FUN to that list. The C64 was fun to play with (programing or games). I remember one time my dad, big brother, and me hooked up our Commodore up to our Betamax VCR and recorded about eight hours of dig-dug. We took turns playing a marathon game and by the end of it we had about 20 roses and the fruit you got after dropping two rocks was any number of weird things, from the dig dug guy to a rock. I can't imagine iPhone ever being so much fun.
Right, I can set up a bunch of profiles or...I could just only give some one the number I want them to have. Perhaps this makes me not geeky enough, but their will never be a technological solution to a social problem.
I only give my mobile number out sparingly. I tell most people to call my land line. I do this because I don't want to be accessible to every one all the time. Most calls can wait. If I had this service it would mean more relatives calling me up while driving to tell me to go on line and look at some random news story. Right now, I think I'll stick with having two numbers.
I'm not being 'snarkey', the 'charm smart people to work for you' is normal for the good CEO. The founder of Kinko's was famous for saying he was just smart enough to higher the A+ students and make them like him. I think it was Rockefeller who said you hire smart people who arn't millionaires and make them millionaires and they will do anything for you. I'm just pointing out that Job's is a CEO and his job is to take credit and be a figure head. He's brilliant, but he doesn't have visions of the future in the middle of the night and then spend months without food or sleep building the first iPod all by him self...Your right, I'm being snarkey. But about fanboys, not Jobs.
Reminds me of a boss I once had that would openly take credit for anything and everything he gave advice on. We could spend weeks on a project, he would swoop in at the last second and say something like 'it should be blue' and then next week he would tell every one that he designed and built the whole thing from scratch with every one sitting cross legged on the floor in awe and worshiping him. I quit after not too long. The man is a jerk.
The thing is he was very charming, and the people who he could charm were very talented and were always doing amazing things. In the end they were so enamored of him that they just let him take credit.
I think that might be the secret of The Jobs in the end. People love him enough that they WANT him to take their ideas. Once he has a few super smart people like that (aka The Woz) and a few major stunningly great products on the market you can pick up more super smart people and the cycle repeats it self.
Don't get me wrong, Jobs is a brilliant engender and programmer, but I think he is not as brilliant as his patent portfolio suggests.
Reduction should be the first priority.
PC Era, yuck...That's right, get an abacus!
Look at it this way. If you survive the cull bacon prices will be waaayyyyy down. And ham will be cheep enough for every meal.