Because now I can fly my spaceship like those cool ones from Earth Final Conflict. Flailing around like some kind of Idiot lets me do stuff like crash and get captured by hostiles.(And yes, I'm embarrassed to admit I watched that show)
by me jumping out and going 'boo.' I think most people were surprised by this. After looking back at the Slashdot article, I could safely say we were surprised as well. But, even though 'rich nerd surprised by something surprising,' isn't much of a story, 'Ballmer surprised and didn't make use of a chair to express his emotional state' is quite newsworthy.
Great, hear I go with a "Me Too!" post. Yea, trek is dead for me. I remember the original Star Trek and how it came off as just a kind of fun space show, and then about six to twelve hours my juvenile mind would get the social commentary about racialism or genocide or what ever and suddenly feel like 'eww, that was kinda sick.' And then I would spend the next few days wondering if a better decision could have been made. Half way through TNG it seemed like everything just got to comfortable. If Picard made a decesion it was the right one, and everything was happy after that. By the time of Enterprise the show lost it's ability to moralize. Now it's just gone.
Ok, end of rant.
The sun hitting car during work made me think of my grandfather and his solar power lunches. He would put food in a heat proof container and stick it on the the dash of his car when he worked (vine dresser in Californians Central Valley) and every day he would get a hot lunch. Now when I camp I put my cooking water in the sun so it takes less time to boil later...I had a point, but it's lost now.
The more I think about this the better it gets. No virus risk (HIV, herpes, hepatitis). No blood type risk. No rejection risk. Not as perishable as real blood. Add in iron and erythropoitien to help regrow the patients own blood and you have a great lifesaving tool.
This would be a great thing in the ER. Blood type rejection is a major cause of complications and death. If we could develop something as safe as saline solution, that would not be rejected by the body, and would help carry oxygen it would simplify things greatly. It wouldn't even need to carry oxygen as well as blood to be effective. Human blood can be diluted to 10% and still carry enough oxygen, so if this fluid was greater than 5% as effective as blood and the patient had not blead out completely it would be more than enough.
I think you are right about the iPod touch. In fact, I can see the iPod touch becoming the next PDA that sees wide scale adoption. I know of lots of people who don't want an AT&T contract that use an iPod touch as a PDA and portable internet tablet. I won't, but that is because I don't want to use iTunes,
Kind of like telling a kid to be strong and fit, but never teaching them how to stretch. Most math drills and language lessons are stretching sit ups for the brain.
That reminds me about the Bill Cosby show that was over 18 only (and I think he wanted it to be over 21) No profanity, violence, or nudity, but the topics were all 'grown up'; child birth, in-laws, the stupidity of cocaine, and so on. The reason he made it an over 18 show was because Mr Cosby didn't want parents to need to stop laughing and enplane to the kids why it was funny.
...luckily they have kneejerk sycophants like you to explain away their sleaze as perfectly acceptable. the same sleazy moves you would pillory microsoft...
Not to be a troll, but are you saying that the Google of today is the Apple of tomorrow?
I was thinking that Data needs to become more artificial and less human. He is a completely new form of life, and no one has scratched the surface of what that means. So, in a bid to keep Data, and still get rid of old Brent I think that he should 'outgorw' his body, and need to be transferred to something bigger. He starts as a shuttle, becomes a star ship, and then changes 'bodies' when he gets a new job. One season he is a deep space probe, next year he is a war ship, later he is a holodeck program. Maybe he could copy him self into a probe and then reintegrate himself when he returns. I think I'm just tired of machines that try to be human, we need a machine try to be a machine.
Good point, and as my ATM card has been eaten by the machine at the bank because my account got hacked perhaps I should restate the reason for my lack of concern.
I'm not very exposed to risk online. My bank account and credit cards shut down and lock up tight if they suffer a breach, and I tend to carry enough cash to get back home, so I'm not worried about that. If an odd charge shows up on my bank statement I go to the bank and they reverse it without any question (it's good to be old friends with most of your bank staff). The point is, the risk is on the side of the bank and credit card company, at most I'm on the hook for is a minimum charge for fixing the error. Big deal.
Oh, and the breach on my bank account had to do with my check card. A subcontractor for Visa had a security breach, so the problem affected several banks and was not due to my online activity. My wife's check card was unaffected, strangely enough, and we had no abnormal activity on our account.
Right, I said "Master Hacker," the kind in movies that go after one person and then take over everything about them. Not the kind that sets up goofy phishing schemes.
Part time job as an accountant. Volunteer work with Deaf people the rest of the time. Live in a one bedroom apartment with my wife. Nope, not important. That is unless you like to harass people without money.
Reminds me of the first lesson in hacking: Social Engineering is More Powerful than Passwords. Only the other way around. If you learn what hackers do, you can avoid them (most of the time). And if their is a Master Hacker who can dupe me, I doubt their is much I can do to stop him. Thankfully I'm not important enough to be a target.
I know a few PDA junkies have moved to the iPod touch. Personally, I have gone to Mead notepads, but am thinking of upgrading to moleskin notebooks at some point. Combined with a fisher space pen (that fits in my knife sheath) it's the best solution I have found.
I think with the right labor pool and right area this could very troublesome. Get homeless people to do the leg work, and target major metropolitan areas like New York, San Francisco, and LA. Also if you have a few rootkits waiting on the other side of the URL you could propagate to Linux and Mac machines as well.
I thought it was because every time I try to use solar powered anything the weather turns bad. Therefore if we cover Mojave with solar panels it will become a rain forest.
I was about to post the same thing, but for different reasons. I can't just go from my computer to my moms or dads without having to stop and think about whare things are located because we all use different distros. It's ok for me, I'm a nerd, and like tinkering with things, but for a non nerd that must be very difficult.
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I'm just waiting to see what it looks like to be flying one of those ships at near the speed of sound and have a sneezing fit.
Because now I can fly my spaceship like those cool ones from Earth Final Conflict. Flailing around like some kind of Idiot lets me do stuff like crash and get captured by hostiles.(And yes, I'm embarrassed to admit I watched that show)
by me jumping out and going 'boo.' I think most people were surprised by this. After looking back at the Slashdot article, I could safely say we were surprised as well. But, even though 'rich nerd surprised by something surprising,' isn't much of a story, 'Ballmer surprised and didn't make use of a chair to express his emotional state' is quite newsworthy.
My Filipino heritage is screaming in agony of trying to eat something not fit to be eaten.
I always knew their was something fundamentally wrong with that joke.
What's six times nine?
Great, hear I go with a "Me Too!" post. Yea, trek is dead for me. I remember the original Star Trek and how it came off as just a kind of fun space show, and then about six to twelve hours my juvenile mind would get the social commentary about racialism or genocide or what ever and suddenly feel like 'eww, that was kinda sick.' And then I would spend the next few days wondering if a better decision could have been made. Half way through TNG it seemed like everything just got to comfortable. If Picard made a decesion it was the right one, and everything was happy after that. By the time of Enterprise the show lost it's ability to moralize. Now it's just gone. Ok, end of rant.
The sun hitting car during work made me think of my grandfather and his solar power lunches. He would put food in a heat proof container and stick it on the the dash of his car when he worked (vine dresser in Californians Central Valley) and every day he would get a hot lunch. Now when I camp I put my cooking water in the sun so it takes less time to boil later...I had a point, but it's lost now.
The more I think about this the better it gets. No virus risk (HIV, herpes, hepatitis). No blood type risk. No rejection risk. Not as perishable as real blood. Add in iron and erythropoitien to help regrow the patients own blood and you have a great lifesaving tool.
This would be a great thing in the ER. Blood type rejection is a major cause of complications and death. If we could develop something as safe as saline solution, that would not be rejected by the body, and would help carry oxygen it would simplify things greatly. It wouldn't even need to carry oxygen as well as blood to be effective. Human blood can be diluted to 10% and still carry enough oxygen, so if this fluid was greater than 5% as effective as blood and the patient had not blead out completely it would be more than enough.
I think you are right about the iPod touch. In fact, I can see the iPod touch becoming the next PDA that sees wide scale adoption. I know of lots of people who don't want an AT&T contract that use an iPod touch as a PDA and portable internet tablet. I won't, but that is because I don't want to use iTunes,
Kind of like telling a kid to be strong and fit, but never teaching them how to stretch. Most math drills and language lessons are stretching sit ups for the brain.
That reminds me about the Bill Cosby show that was over 18 only (and I think he wanted it to be over 21) No profanity, violence, or nudity, but the topics were all 'grown up'; child birth, in-laws, the stupidity of cocaine, and so on. The reason he made it an over 18 show was because Mr Cosby didn't want parents to need to stop laughing and enplane to the kids why it was funny.
...luckily they have kneejerk sycophants like you to explain away their sleaze as perfectly acceptable. the same sleazy moves you would pillory microsoft ...
Not to be a troll, but are you saying that the Google of today is the Apple of tomorrow?
I was thinking that Data needs to become more artificial and less human. He is a completely new form of life, and no one has scratched the surface of what that means. So, in a bid to keep Data, and still get rid of old Brent I think that he should 'outgorw' his body, and need to be transferred to something bigger. He starts as a shuttle, becomes a star ship, and then changes 'bodies' when he gets a new job. One season he is a deep space probe, next year he is a war ship, later he is a holodeck program. Maybe he could copy him self into a probe and then reintegrate himself when he returns. I think I'm just tired of machines that try to be human, we need a machine try to be a machine.
So, all we need is a black hole, some alien technology, and a friendly snake in my head?
I'm not very exposed to risk online. My bank account and credit cards shut down and lock up tight if they suffer a breach, and I tend to carry enough cash to get back home, so I'm not worried about that. If an odd charge shows up on my bank statement I go to the bank and they reverse it without any question (it's good to be old friends with most of your bank staff). The point is, the risk is on the side of the bank and credit card company, at most I'm on the hook for is a minimum charge for fixing the error. Big deal.
Oh, and the breach on my bank account had to do with my check card. A subcontractor for Visa had a security breach, so the problem affected several banks and was not due to my online activity. My wife's check card was unaffected, strangely enough, and we had no abnormal activity on our account.
Right, I said "Master Hacker," the kind in movies that go after one person and then take over everything about them. Not the kind that sets up goofy phishing schemes.
Part time job as an accountant. Volunteer work with Deaf people the rest of the time. Live in a one bedroom apartment with my wife. Nope, not important. That is unless you like to harass people without money.
Reminds me of the first lesson in hacking: Social Engineering is More Powerful than Passwords. Only the other way around. If you learn what hackers do, you can avoid them (most of the time). And if their is a Master Hacker who can dupe me, I doubt their is much I can do to stop him. Thankfully I'm not important enough to be a target.
I know a few PDA junkies have moved to the iPod touch. Personally, I have gone to Mead notepads, but am thinking of upgrading to moleskin notebooks at some point. Combined with a fisher space pen (that fits in my knife sheath) it's the best solution I have found.
I think with the right labor pool and right area this could very troublesome. Get homeless people to do the leg work, and target major metropolitan areas like New York, San Francisco, and LA. Also if you have a few rootkits waiting on the other side of the URL you could propagate to Linux and Mac machines as well.
I thought it was because every time I try to use solar powered anything the weather turns bad. Therefore if we cover Mojave with solar panels it will become a rain forest.
I was about to post the same thing, but for different reasons. I can't just go from my computer to my moms or dads without having to stop and think about whare things are located because we all use different distros. It's ok for me, I'm a nerd, and like tinkering with things, but for a non nerd that must be very difficult.
Because that was the best tasting dog ever and I want seconds.