Truly one of the best.
Sad loss for us fans.
I was recently starting to read "Songs of the Dying Earth" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Dying_Earth, ISBN ISBN 1-59606-213-4), a tribute from other authors to the Master of the art of world building.
Well, I will remember him drinking a tankard of Tatterblass or maybe some vintage from Almery in his honour.
That's an easy answer: Spain builds pretty good military ships such as hi-tech frigates and so called "pocket air carriers", very compact aircraft carriers that can be equipped with helicopters and submarines such as the S-80, these submarines are stealth and can operate at strategic range.
The submarines are built for export, being that Spain is a mayor player in these market. So, here you have the answer on why... the deficit... blah.. blah...
In fact things aren't so funny as Huffington Post pretends, what happens is not that the "Have Build" a submarine that can't float... the real fact (which you can find even in WIkipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-80-class_submarine is that tfirst submarine will not be ready until 2015 anyway (!) and that there will be a delay of one year or so...
You recall the YF-22? Here in Holland we are still waiting for the US guys to finnish it... and as far as I know they also use CAD / CAM there, doesn't they?
In any case, nothing beats the Dutch: 20 years of delay in the North-South Metro Line in Amsterdam... and this doesn't even have to float or fly, LOL
Just try filling out one of these silly IQ tests while your wife / GF. If you manage to get anything higher than 40 you are superhuman (or she just shut up for a minutes, being the probabilities for that infinitesimal)
Intel's Linux driver is now in the first place of the pole while Apple's OS X driver lost a few position after a problem with the carburetor during the last Malaysian Grand Prix.
This "Cyber" buzzword sounds über-cool, I have to admit it. Very 80's and 90's cool with all these Tron guys and Wargames (the movie).
But WTF? We are in 2013 already, who the heck still believes that you can "attack" a WAN or a network that's not even on the internet from the internet?
It's the new "War On Drugs" making a problem were it didn't exist and in this case the threat itself is so vague and abstract that the common people has no way to know even if any halfwitted IT guy can tell it's all plain bullshit.
It's the same bullshit as when "Anonymous took down the VISA and Mastercard networks" (It happens that I was working back then at the RBS): Nothing was taken down, these networks are value added networks that are not connected to the internet (they are, via payment gateways. but that's another story), there is no way a botnet can affect these, no matter how "cyber".
Or... rethinking it, it's not the new "War On Drugs", it's the new Tooth-fairy, the Cyberfairy!!!
I thought the US Navy had stopped with the use of Dolphins for military purposes. From what I heard they weren't quite reliable and prone to mind their own business and games, even swimming away when they fancied. And I even heard about some incidents in which dolphins and seals brought (fake) explosives to their handlers, which would have been fatal in a real case. Far from a good use for the citizen's taxes.
Reading between the lines what I see here is an attempt of putting a controversial project into a positive line.
They are predicting the same stuff since the 1960.
There ever were futurologist writing deep and brainy essays about the "Society of Leisure". To give you an example of what futurologists were busy at that time I suggest to read Philip Jose Farmer's "Riders of the Purple Wage" (published in H. Ellison's famous anthology "Dangerous Visions"), here's a link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riders_of_the_Purple_Wage
In any case, eve if you aren't interested in futurology the anthology is a good read (an excellent read I dear say).
I am using it for nearly 7 years now. I have yet to find a decent way to use the portage system, something that works flawlessly on Windows with Cygwin. I have no equivalent to any of Linux packaging and developement tools nor do I have any of the GUI based options I am used to in Windows like SQL Managment Studio or Visual Studio.
Regarding everyday stuff I don't have the ease of windows and the pletora of freeware for this OS not do I have the freedom of Linux.
Why dio I have macs at home (note the plural)? Because when I bought my iMac a PC was not an option for size (small apartment) and my wife got used to it so that she got herself a powerbook.
I do my SQL stuff on a Windows 7 laptop and my code on my faithful Debian Acer notebook. And the iMac for internet.
I have no idea if the mainstream might be interested, but sporters would give an arm for one of them (figuratively).
Just imagine being able to see your pace, mileage, time, heart rate, route, weather information, etc right in front of you, constantly displayed without the need for looking at your wrist.
I actually am still planning on duct-taping the "watch" part of my Nike+ wristwatch to the brim of a running cap to get constant pace and mileage information.
I do hate running with a smartphone, but on longer trail runs I have to wear a "camel" type back pack anyway with a water bladder and if I could have the info that a device like the Google Glass provides I would be glad to have to live with the annoying weight of a smarthpone... and this without considering the possibility of a smart watch connected via bluetooth to the Glass...
I would really love to have a pair of these... but mates, the price is excessive. The applications are the same as anything else: Futurologist get onanistic about them and orgasm thinking on how cyberpunky all the society will become, rant against all the old fashioned "feudalists" that criticise their points and make a new announcement of the transcendence of humanity to a higher state of cyber-consciousness... while at the end if widely adopted this new tech will be used for teenage chit-chat, porn and silly cat memes. But the price... mates, the price... Wake me up in a decade when prices get down.
I am in a state of realist depression right now. Please prescribe a religion who's sacraments involve the performance of oral sex by extremely hot chicks.
Are the drivers supposed to be playing air guitar and throwing horns to the sound of Sodom's "Outbreak of Evil"? In this case I think I will buy the model 666. Hail Satan!!! \m/
Well, I guess the question was: Why did this guy bother putting a fancy head on the noodle chopper machine? OK, maybe the bot is not in the kitchen but visible to the public... anyway: I want one as soon as the Koreans build a Kimchi making robot
Well, I live in a country. I have no choice. I need to use roads and public transports. In Germany, elecricity was privatized, now there is one big company with prices inflated up to 5 times the market price. Here in Holland our trains are one of the most expensive in the world and thei never arrive in time. What does it mean? That private companies can cost you as much as taxes and give as shitty as service.
No-tax is an utopy and free-market such as the US "libertarian" want is a flawed idea. I saw recently a very silly picture comparing the good things the private enterprise has done vs. the very bad stuff done by hte governement. It was pretty silly showing on one side an apple Mac Book Air and on the other side a space shuttle. Yes, space shuttles are old, but they put people in space, the MacBook Air is just an obsolete market fail.
But the sillies of all is that today's private companies rely on the status-quo as much as governments do.
If you want a no-tax libertarian society you must make "tabula rasa" with everything. This is what "left wing" libertarians understood but right wing "no-tax" nuts don't, they just have a religiuos aversion to taxes but are willing to pay the same or more to a private company.
Fortunately here in Europe we aren't quite religiuos and we prefer a pragmatic approach to economics (mostly).
That's true for mediterranean forests and a few norhter hemisphere forests but not for most paleartic forests or rain forests... in the latter case because of the presence of Captain Obvious;)
Of course, it would be extremely fun to threw a few million of tons of gasoline and oil and burn out the whole stuff including fauna and natives. We don't need the biodiversty anyway and clean water can be bought in the supermarket. We could put all the biologists and climate scientist into the flames and get rid at the same tiem of all these good-for-nothings. We don't believe in climate, do we?
We woiuld still have a little issue with methane becuase of these silly termites and ants... well, it's kinda hard to get rid of them even with a few billion barrels of fuel. But who cares? It's all in good fun and while we party we could quote the best South Park jokes about Al Gore and Manbearpig! Love these!
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Truly one of the best. Sad loss for us fans. I was recently starting to read "Songs of the Dying Earth" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Dying_Earth, ISBN ISBN 1-59606-213-4), a tribute from other authors to the Master of the art of world building. Well, I will remember him drinking a tankard of Tatterblass or maybe some vintage from Almery in his honour.
Peta in Spanish slang means joint (the one meant for smoking)
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That's an easy answer:
Spain builds pretty good military ships such as hi-tech frigates and so called "pocket air carriers", very compact aircraft carriers that can be equipped with helicopters and submarines such as the S-80, these submarines are stealth and can operate at strategic range.
The submarines are built for export, being that Spain is a mayor player in these market. So, here you have the answer on why... the deficit... blah.. blah...
In fact things aren't so funny as Huffington Post pretends, what happens is not that the "Have Build" a submarine that can't float... the real fact (which you can find even in WIkipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-80-class_submarine is that tfirst submarine will not be ready until 2015 anyway (!) and that there will be a delay of one year or so...
You recall the YF-22? Here in Holland we are still waiting for the US guys to finnish it... and as far as I know they also use CAD / CAM there, doesn't they?
In any case, nothing beats the Dutch: 20 years of delay in the North-South Metro Line in Amsterdam... and this doesn't even have to float or fly, LOL
Just try filling out one of these silly IQ tests while your wife / GF.
If you manage to get anything higher than 40 you are superhuman (or she just shut up for a minutes, being the probabilities for that infinitesimal)
well, I don't need to brag about my IQ: We people with a value above 500 don't need i, specially those of us who have a penis size or 30cm to match.
Intel's Linux driver is now in the first place of the pole while Apple's OS X driver lost a few position after a problem with the carburetor during the last Malaysian Grand Prix.
97% of the papers say that man is to blame for climate change.
If these papers 85% was authored by a woman.
This "Cyber" buzzword sounds über-cool, I have to admit it.
Very 80's and 90's cool with all these Tron guys and Wargames (the movie).
But WTF? We are in 2013 already, who the heck still believes that you can "attack" a WAN or a network that's not even on the internet from the internet?
It's the new "War On Drugs" making a problem were it didn't exist and in this case the threat itself is so vague and abstract that the common people has no way to know even if any halfwitted IT guy can tell it's all plain bullshit.
It's the same bullshit as when "Anonymous took down the VISA and Mastercard networks" (It happens that I was working back then at the RBS): Nothing was taken down, these networks are value added networks that are not connected to the internet (they are, via payment gateways. but that's another story), there is no way a botnet can affect these, no matter how "cyber".
Or... rethinking it, it's not the new "War On Drugs", it's the new Tooth-fairy, the Cyberfairy!!!
I thought the US Navy had stopped with the use of Dolphins for military purposes. From what I heard they weren't quite reliable and prone to mind their own business and games, even swimming away when they fancied. And I even heard about some incidents in which dolphins and seals brought (fake) explosives to their handlers, which would have been fatal in a real case. Far from a good use for the citizen's taxes.
Reading between the lines what I see here is an attempt of putting a controversial project into a positive line.
LOL.
I was reading this article and heading the "You may also like to read" section "First fully 3D Printed Gun..."
I dunno mates, but out here we are getting a very weird image of you USians as gun-crazed anti-tax jihadists.
Just joking.
Handy for pr0n!
Tax the robots?
Fuck, now I now why they went berserk and created The Matrix
They are predicting the same stuff since the 1960.
There ever were futurologist writing deep and brainy essays about the "Society of Leisure". To give you an example of what futurologists were busy at that time I suggest to read Philip Jose Farmer's "Riders of the Purple Wage" (published in H. Ellison's famous anthology "Dangerous Visions"), here's a link to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riders_of_the_Purple_Wage
In any case, eve if you aren't interested in futurology the anthology is a good read (an excellent read I dear say).
I got an exemplar of the whole study. It is a very interesting reading.
Here is an example of these ancient words:
Yi-nash-Yog-Sothoth-he-lgeb-fi-throdog-Yah!
What I wonder is why the authors have vanished in such a mysterious way...
I am using it for nearly 7 years now.
I have yet to find a decent way to use the portage system, something that works flawlessly on Windows with Cygwin.
I have no equivalent to any of Linux packaging and developement tools nor do I have any of the GUI based options I am used to in Windows like SQL Managment Studio or Visual Studio.
Regarding everyday stuff I don't have the ease of windows and the pletora of freeware for this OS not do I have the freedom of Linux.
Why dio I have macs at home (note the plural)? Because when I bought my iMac a PC was not an option for size (small apartment) and my wife got used to it so that she got herself a powerbook.
I do my SQL stuff on a Windows 7 laptop and my code on my faithful Debian Acer notebook. And the iMac for internet.
I have no idea if the mainstream might be interested, but sporters would give an arm for one of them (figuratively).
Just imagine being able to see your pace, mileage, time, heart rate, route, weather information, etc right in front of you, constantly displayed without the need for looking at your wrist.
I actually am still planning on duct-taping the "watch" part of my Nike+ wristwatch to the brim of a running cap to get constant pace and mileage information.
I do hate running with a smartphone, but on longer trail runs I have to wear a "camel" type back pack anyway with a water bladder and if I could have the info that a device like the Google Glass provides I would be glad to have to live with the annoying weight of a smarthpone... and this without considering the possibility of a smart watch connected via bluetooth to the Glass...
Mates, I'm salivating!!!
But maybe it's true that I am too nerdy, LOL
I would really love to have a pair of these... but mates, the price is excessive.
The applications are the same as anything else: Futurologist get onanistic about them and orgasm thinking on how cyberpunky all the society will become, rant against all the old fashioned "feudalists" that criticise their points and make a new announcement of the transcendence of humanity to a higher state of cyber-consciousness... while at the end if widely adopted this new tech will be used for teenage chit-chat, porn and silly cat memes.
But the price... mates, the price...
Wake me up in a decade when prices get down.
I am in a state of realist depression right now.
Please prescribe a religion who's sacraments involve the performance of oral sex by extremely hot chicks.
Thanks.
No probs, go ahead... And despite looking legit don't answer to the mail from the widow of the former president of Nigeria.
Are the drivers supposed to be playing air guitar and throwing horns to the sound of Sodom's "Outbreak of Evil"? In this case I think I will buy the model 666.
Hail Satan!!! \m/
Well, I guess the question was: Why did this guy bother putting a fancy head on the noodle chopper machine?
OK, maybe the bot is not in the kitchen but visible to the public... anyway: I want one as soon as the Koreans build a Kimchi making robot
Oh NOES!! :(
The Attack of the Gaint Shrimp!!!
Now that they finally fixed the Tower of Tokyo after teh last Godzilla attack. It's not fair
Well, I live in a country. I have no choice. I need to use roads and public transports.
In Germany, elecricity was privatized, now there is one big company with prices inflated up to 5 times the market price. Here in Holland our trains are one of the most expensive in the world and thei never arrive in time. What does it mean? That private companies can cost you as much as taxes and give as shitty as service.
No-tax is an utopy and free-market such as the US "libertarian" want is a flawed idea. I saw recently a very silly picture comparing the good things the private enterprise has done vs. the very bad stuff done by hte governement. It was pretty silly showing on one side an apple Mac Book Air and on the other side a space shuttle. Yes, space shuttles are old, but they put people in space, the MacBook Air is just an obsolete market fail.
But the sillies of all is that today's private companies rely on the status-quo as much as governments do.
If you want a no-tax libertarian society you must make "tabula rasa" with everything. This is what "left wing" libertarians understood but right wing "no-tax" nuts don't, they just have a religiuos aversion to taxes but are willing to pay the same or more to a private company.
Fortunately here in Europe we aren't quite religiuos and we prefer a pragmatic approach to economics (mostly).
That's true for mediterranean forests and a few norhter hemisphere forests but not for most paleartic forests or rain forests... in the latter case because of the presence of Captain Obvious ;)
Of course, it would be extremely fun to threw a few million of tons of gasoline and oil and burn out the whole stuff including fauna and natives. We don't need the biodiversty anyway and clean water can be bought in the supermarket. We could put all the biologists and climate scientist into the flames and get rid at the same tiem of all these good-for-nothings. We don't believe in climate, do we?
We woiuld still have a little issue with methane becuase of these silly termites and ants... well, it's kinda hard to get rid of them even with a few billion barrels of fuel. But who cares? It's all in good fun and while we party we could quote the best South Park jokes about Al Gore and Manbearpig! Love these!