I work as an Orientation Leader at my college; familiarizing incoming freshman with the campus and what it's like to be a college student, etc. One of the things we warn them about is to not put anything on facebook that they wouldn't want their family to see. Of course, they don't listen and we've had RAs write kids up for things they've done just because the RA saw pictures of it posted on facebook.
When kids get their room assignments, they instantly check their roommates out on facebook. Every now and then we hear stories that even before they've met the roommate, parents ask for a new one because the roommate's facebook page makes them worry the kid might be gay.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Also, though it's not sci-fi, Masters of Doom by David Kushner is a fantastic book about the development of id Software in the early 90s. It's a fun read for anyone into gaming.
Why did he only test them to 25 degrees? I've had to take my laptop outside in colder. If I had to guess, I'd say the coldest I've taken my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 6000, hardly a tough laptop) out in is 10, and it's worked fine afterwards. If he's going to test the physical limits of these tough-books he should test them beyond everyday temperatures, especially since winter temperatures often get below 25 in many places.
I thought about that when I was reading through the article. Two solutions come to mind:
1) A touch screen with very lightly raised bumps and ridges where the standard keyboard would be. You could feel your way around even if they keyboard's not there. The obvious downside being that the bumps and ridges remain when you're using another interface. I don't think I'd want to try and draw anything with a stylus on that.
2) Some sort of combination of the touch screen with the morphing Magneclay of the Saifu. Something that could morph to feel like whatever interface you are using would be pretty nifty, but it seems a little too sci-fi, even for seven years from now.
"No one is any hungrier because we went to the moon, no one is any colder and certainly no one is any dumber. Why go to Mars? 'Cause it's next. 'Cause we came out of the cave and we looked over the hill and we saw fire. And we crossed the ocean and we pioneered the West and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on a timeline of exploration and this is what's next."
*two brothers, Billy and Timmy come home, Billy is listening to his iPod*
Mom: Billy, did you legally obtain all the music on that iPod?
Billy: Yes, mom.
Mom: Mrs. Johnson told me her son lent you a CD... you know that's piracy!
Billy: But, mom!
Mom: No "buts"! You're grounded and no internet for you until we're sure the RIAA isn't tapping our computer!
Billy: But Timmy stabbed a kid at school today!
Timmy: The voices tell me to hurt people.
Mom: Did he violate international copyright law?
Billy: There were cops and an ambulence and everything!
Mom: You didn't answer my question.
Billy: No. He didn't.
Mom: That's right. Now you go to your room. Timmy, would you like some ice cream?
Timmy: I want to burn things.
I had a biology text book once that tried to determine the value of one human. The estimate was based on breaking down an average human body into its elemental composition and finding the market price of the elements present.
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The old South Koreans aren't import, he forgot BOOBIES!!!
Indiscrimate, indefinite search and seizures of the property of law-abiding citizens hardly gives the impression of safety.
You don't have to duck. I'm about to take the heat for you...
*clears throat*
Yeah, but will it run Duke Nukem Forever?
*runs like hell*
I work as an Orientation Leader at my college; familiarizing incoming freshman with the campus and what it's like to be a college student, etc. One of the things we warn them about is to not put anything on facebook that they wouldn't want their family to see. Of course, they don't listen and we've had RAs write kids up for things they've done just because the RA saw pictures of it posted on facebook.
When kids get their room assignments, they instantly check their roommates out on facebook. Every now and then we hear stories that even before they've met the roommate, parents ask for a new one because the roommate's facebook page makes them worry the kid might be gay.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Also, though it's not sci-fi, Masters of Doom by David Kushner is a fantastic book about the development of id Software in the early 90s. It's a fun read for anyone into gaming.
Especially if your name is Lars Thorwald.
If the whole thing is an expense, wouldn't that make it a tax write-off?
is also my 21st birthday, we'll see how well Guinness and Firefox mix.
You assume that just because something is posted that people will read it.
I wanted to see it come crashing down in my lifetime!
I still want my Gravity Gun
Why did he only test them to 25 degrees? I've had to take my laptop outside in colder. If I had to guess, I'd say the coldest I've taken my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 6000, hardly a tough laptop) out in is 10, and it's worked fine afterwards. If he's going to test the physical limits of these tough-books he should test them beyond everyday temperatures, especially since winter temperatures often get below 25 in many places.
I can see this being very popular on college campuses.
What the cog for pi looks like.
There's a joke to be made about drinking milkshakes here, I'm sure of it...
Isn't that cute? They still think there's privacy in the United States...
I thought about that when I was reading through the article. Two solutions come to mind:
1) A touch screen with very lightly raised bumps and ridges where the standard keyboard would be. You could feel your way around even if they keyboard's not there. The obvious downside being that the bumps and ridges remain when you're using another interface. I don't think I'd want to try and draw anything with a stylus on that.
2) Some sort of combination of the touch screen with the morphing Magneclay of the Saifu. Something that could morph to feel like whatever interface you are using would be pretty nifty, but it seems a little too sci-fi, even for seven years from now.
"No one is any hungrier because we went to the moon, no one is any colder and certainly no one is any dumber. Why go to Mars? 'Cause it's next. 'Cause we came out of the cave and we looked over the hill and we saw fire. And we crossed the ocean and we pioneered the West and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on a timeline of exploration and this is what's next."
I don't want robot milk. I want milk-plus. Milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom. That sharpens you up for a bit of the old ultra-violence...
Can I get it with Mike Nelson rifftrax?
*two brothers, Billy and Timmy come home, Billy is listening to his iPod*
Mom: Billy, did you legally obtain all the music on that iPod?
Billy: Yes, mom.
Mom: Mrs. Johnson told me her son lent you a CD... you know that's piracy!
Billy: But, mom!
Mom: No "buts"! You're grounded and no internet for you until we're sure the RIAA isn't tapping our computer!
Billy: But Timmy stabbed a kid at school today!
Timmy: The voices tell me to hurt people.
Mom: Did he violate international copyright law?
Billy: There were cops and an ambulence and everything!
Mom: You didn't answer my question.
Billy: No. He didn't.
Mom: That's right. Now you go to your room. Timmy, would you like some ice cream?
Timmy: I want to burn things.
I had a biology text book once that tried to determine the value of one human. The estimate was based on breaking down an average human body into its elemental composition and finding the market price of the elements present.
It was about $108, plus change.
That's the kind of story you expect to hear about an AK-47, not consumer electronic equipment.
The toughest product ever is the AK-47.
They also run spam servers... http://xkcd.com/250/