If they move towards this, then your enemy will end up hacking your automated wounded soldier recovery systems and make them drive off the nearest cliff.
It's not science! It's MAD SCIENCE... how could you miss something so obvious? If it followed strict science as it works in our world the entire program would have nothing in it.
The whole point is that Walter is an archetypal mad scientist, and as such his science is equally mad.
The team from the Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre also entered the festive spirit and took advantage of the wintry weather by engraving the words 'Merry Christmas' onto a snowflake.
Philip Moriarty, professor of physics, said: 'Although writing on a snowflake is on one hand a bit of seasonal fun, it's also a neat demonstration of the powerful capabilities of the tools that scientists use in the lab on a day-to-day basis.'
What has been missed from this article is that Nottingham University has a *Professor Moriarty* on its staff, who has access to ion beam equipment!
The team from the Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre also entered the festive spirit and took advantage of the wintry weather by engraving the words 'Merry Christmas' onto a snowflake. Philip Moriarty, professor of physics, said: 'Although writing on a snowflake is on one hand a bit of seasonal fun, it's also a neat demonstration of the powerful capabilities of the tools that scientists use in the lab on a day-to-day basis.'
What everyone has missed from this particular version of the story is that Nottingham University has a *Professor Moriarty* on their staff!
Anecdotal only of course, but my own experience was a surprisingly flawless upgrade which actually fixed some issues caused my my earlier meddling in systems I didn't fully understand.
And what sort of early adopter is going to dive straight into encrypted partitions? Certainly I now run with a separate home partition in case an upgrade goes badly, an experience learned from early bad upgrades, but this time it wasn't needed.
Inevitably every time there's an upgrade some people get burned. I think people forget that there's no an actual need to upgrade on the first day also. At least wait a week and see what issues other people encounter or run it on a spare machine / swappable hard drive and see what sort of possible problems you encounter.
No, they actually got no money at all from those people. From their site -
"For all purchases of around 30 cents and under, we actually saw no money, PayPal took it all, but they probably ended up losing money on most of those transactions ($0.01) as well, they’re not the bad guy."
I noticed the crystals tag on the story, which reminded me of the old Star Trek episodes where someone would open a case of storage crystals, select one, and then access some tremendously huge amount of data on a local terminal using it.
The thought that popped into my head the other day was this - how do they always seem to know what crystal to select? There would often be 20 - 25 in a case, and they were all unlabelled!
I had an amusing image of some kind 100 petabyte crystal technology marred by the user's sticking labels on the sides of them with "movie collection" scrawled in biro!
One point regarding Jammie Thomas. She actually had 2500 illegally obtained tracks on her PC, but was only prosecuted for a handful of them so the $K22.5 I often see bandied around isn't strictly accurate.
Sony are clearly in the wrong here however. Unless the contracts says music created during those recording sessions, not the songs that reached the final albums. As we haven't seen the contracts I wouldn't like to speculate.
And no - I am not over-reacting. I recently visited my home town and thought I'd check out the old city library which I heard had been given a big makeover.
It was like visiting a shopping mall. Modern and clean, but no character whatsoever. Most of one entire floor out of the five was nothing but PCs inhabited by large amounts of students who already have more than enough access to the net as it is. There was a coffee shop, a crÃche, another entire floor dedicated to meeting and conference rooms. One floor was labelled as storage - staff only. I know where all the books went now!
Out of five floors, only one and a half of them actually had books in them. Unbelievable for a major city library.
I had a larger science fiction collection at home than a library supporting hundreds of thousands of people.
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If they move towards this, then your enemy will end up hacking your automated wounded soldier recovery systems and make them drive off the nearest cliff.
For starters.
I'm really not sure we should be letting these guys into the EU until they start making some changes to the way they do things.
You numpties!
It's not science! It's MAD SCIENCE... how could you miss something so obvious? If it followed strict science as it works in our world the entire program would have nothing in it.
The whole point is that Walter is an archetypal mad scientist, and as such his science is equally mad.
Surely they should have released it in 1977 when people were still interested in Star Wars? ;-)
The team from the Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre also entered the festive spirit and took advantage of the wintry weather by engraving the words 'Merry Christmas' onto a snowflake.
Philip Moriarty, professor of physics, said: 'Although writing on a snowflake is on one hand a bit of seasonal fun, it's also a neat demonstration of the powerful capabilities of the tools that scientists use in the lab on a day-to-day basis.'
What has been missed from this article is that Nottingham University has a *Professor Moriarty* on its staff, who has access to ion beam equipment!
Call Holmes!
The team from the Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre also entered the festive spirit and took advantage of the wintry weather by engraving the words 'Merry Christmas' onto a snowflake. Philip Moriarty, professor of physics, said: 'Although writing on a snowflake is on one hand a bit of seasonal fun, it's also a neat demonstration of the powerful capabilities of the tools that scientists use in the lab on a day-to-day basis.'
What everyone has missed from this particular version of the story is that Nottingham University has a *Professor Moriarty* on their staff!
Call Holmes!
Despite all this clever wording, Americans do not outlive Brits in the vast majority of cases.
USA - Male life expectancy 75.6 years, female 80.8 years.
UK - Male life expectancy 77.2 years, female 81.6 years.
Notice how one set of numbers are larger than the others.
It was actually 3200 songs, but she's only gone to court for 24 of them.
Finally, I find this by chance and find the name of the short film I've been trying to find out about for the last 30 years...
And it's not available to buy... *sigh*
What stops people digging latrines?
Anecdotal only of course, but my own experience was a surprisingly flawless upgrade which actually fixed some issues caused my my earlier meddling in systems I didn't fully understand.
And what sort of early adopter is going to dive straight into encrypted partitions? Certainly I now run with a separate home partition in case an upgrade goes badly, an experience learned from early bad upgrades, but this time it wasn't needed.
Inevitably every time there's an upgrade some people get burned. I think people forget that there's no an actual need to upgrade on the first day also. At least wait a week and see what issues other people encounter or run it on a spare machine / swappable hard drive and see what sort of possible problems you encounter.
"someday soon you will all just be put to the People's guillotine."
This is the only rational course of action for them trying to prevent you watching Transformers 2 for free... /s
That seems really relevant to the topic of discussion.
No, they actually got no money at all from those people. From their site -
"For all purchases of around 30 cents and under, we actually saw no money, PayPal took it all, but they probably ended up losing money on most of those transactions ($0.01) as well, they’re not the bad guy."
Blame Kevin Warwick.
He's always exaggerating his claims, including his "I'm a cyborg" nonsense.
in charge of this, instead of Eric Lerner.
There's a saying I heard once - "Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem".
Babylon 5 was far more realistic in that things weren't magically wrapped up in 45 minutes.
With apparently no psychological aftermath, and not even the loss of memory or nerve damage.
How ludicrous!
Hmmm... I'd better pre-order some gorillas now, before winter gets here.
It doesn't fit into the approved subject criteria... Mathematics, English, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and so on...
It's not like they could "bribe" the schools either, surely as the government would have something to say about that...
Or am I simply being naive? ;-)
I think the original was made by Toshiba, and re-branded as Microsoft.
Dunno about this new one, which will also fail to sell in any significant numbers.
Sorry if this is a bit offtopic, guys.
I noticed the crystals tag on the story, which reminded me of the old Star Trek episodes where someone would open a case of storage crystals, select one, and then access some tremendously huge amount of data on a local terminal using it.
The thought that popped into my head the other day was this - how do they always seem to know what crystal to select? There would often be 20 - 25 in a case, and they were all unlabelled!
I had an amusing image of some kind 100 petabyte crystal technology marred by the user's sticking labels on the sides of them with "movie collection" scrawled in biro!
£20,000 a year seems pretty decent wages to me. Not everyone lives in London or artificially expensive parts of the country, you know.
One point regarding Jammie Thomas. She actually had 2500 illegally obtained tracks on her PC, but was only prosecuted for a handful of them so the $K22.5 I often see bandied around isn't strictly accurate.
Sony are clearly in the wrong here however. Unless the contracts says music created during those recording sessions, not the songs that reached the final albums. As we haven't seen the contracts I wouldn't like to speculate.
(Just being the Devil's Advocate, guys.)
And no - I am not over-reacting. I recently visited my home town and thought I'd check out the old city library which I heard had been given a big makeover.
It was like visiting a shopping mall. Modern and clean, but no character whatsoever. Most of one entire floor out of the five was nothing but PCs inhabited by large amounts of students who already have more than enough access to the net as it is. There was a coffee shop, a crÃche, another entire floor dedicated to meeting and conference rooms. One floor was labelled as storage - staff only. I know where all the books went now!
Out of five floors, only one and a half of them actually had books in them. Unbelievable for a major city library.
I had a larger science fiction collection at home than a library supporting hundreds of thousands of people.