It presents something enjoyable (here it is assumed that Seinfeld+Gates==Enjoyable) and then presents the branding that they want to be associated with
Anyone who finds this combination of people enjoyable is mentally troubled.
When Seinfeld bounces his sitcom wit off Jason Alexander, we understand that 'George' is a fictional social maladroit and Jason Alexander's skills make the interplay humorous.
Put Seinfeld's gregarious wit directly next to a real-life socially inept character and we have, not comedy, but tragedy.
It's like watching Dad dancing, on stage, next to a breakdance champion.
The message we take away is :
Gregarious + awkward = cringeworthy
Everyone denied the Earth was spherical, but here we are today.
yep, here we are perpetuating myths that everyone thought the Earth was flat.. which they didn't.
The idea was fueled mainly by Washington Irvings fantasy novel "The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" (1828).
But back in reality; Aristotle provided evidence for a spherical earth way back in 330BC and the Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by Eratosthenes.
What else do we 'know' ?
I'm a veggie, and I'm always dismayed when the food corporations try to package veggie products like meat. It shows a pretty large lack of understanding of the market sector. Like ,
"Hey Jewish people, check out new 'Kosher Ham'!"
I don't mind them aiming for a "vaguely meaty" savoury flavour delivered in cylindrical form, but when they try and attempt "fried chicken" or "roast lamb", that's just weird.
I often try and mail the companies, but invariably get a mail form error or a telling bounceback :
"customersatisfaction@megaglobalfoods.com is not a valid address on this system"
I'd nibble on the soylent green though, no problems.
there is a documentary "On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'") where Ridley Scott states explicitly that Deckard is an an Android. It's a very interesting film if you can find it. Warner recently issued takedowns on it from google video.
In the doc it's revealed by one of the producers that Harrison Ford had a plan to sabotage the studios voiceover idea by doing it as bad as he possibly could, that way they would be forced by time pressures to release some form of 'directors cut'.
Many key players are interviewed, Ridley Scott, Rutger Hauer, dudes from the FX team, etc. It's funny to see Rutger ridiculing the test screening audiences, also hearing that he came up with his immortal lines ('I've seen things...')just half an hour prior to filming and got the OK from the production team to use them. Great documentary
The problem with driverless cars isn't the technology but insurance.
Many manufacturers have been dissuaded from pursuing the technology and installing in their vehicles because in the case of any accident the corporation would be liable. Obviously the 'driver' wouldn't be at fault because they wouldn't be driving.
No large corporation is going to put itself in line to pay out on every bump, scrape and minor slaying caused when their killer robo-cars Attack!
Surely dailymotion.com is where most people choose to place their "Big Media" clips these days?
For now it is rendered invisible to corporate legislators due to:
1. having an unfortunate name that conjurs scatalogical images.
2. being partly in some kind of 'code' language known as "French"
3. You probably couldn't sue them for that much
no.
Lets imagine a potential alien civilisation more like this:
you live in a typical suburban neighborhood, there are 200 houses within a 30-minute walk,...etc, etc.
In my neighbourhood, there are a few houses where I have never met the occupants but can guess what sort of people live there from the clues.
1: The first house has a run down look, there is a drum kit sometimes played upstairs and the smell of 'herbs' emanates from time to time. There is a beatup car outside with stickers all over it which never moves. I guess it is a student house or hippies of some kind.
2: On this house neatly trimmed roses grow around the door, through the window is a very tidy room with some old furniture. The step is freakishly clean. I think an old lady lives there.
3: this house always has 3 broken windows, the holes are usually filled with the lids from fast food packaging. I often hear screaming or violent arguments from there. The tv volume is incredibly loud and can be heard intermittently across the neighbourhood, usually dim witted gameshows. Sometimes there is junk on the street where they have simply thrown it onto the road. It looks like they are demolishing their house from the inside.
The thing is : I don't want to say "hello" to the people in house number 3, in fact when I walk past it I think "I am invisible, I am invisible,..." until I am a safe distance away.
this is all true BTW, yet indicative.
I'm pretty sure 8 dimensional extra-terrestrial squid things think the same way I do. Well, as sure as you lot seem to be about your analogies anyway.
A 'friend of mine' used to get free money out of ATMs in the late 80's by using the simple method of a piece of stickytape.
you go to the ATM and draw out £5, on those old machines and when the gate opened you had time to stick a peice of tape across the dispensing rollers. You then hang around like surly teenagers while people fail to draw money out - after 5 people have done this you go back and withdraw another £5, when the gate opens you use a pair of tweezers to rip off the tape and claim the winnings (normally around £200 - £400).
Yes, my friend had few morals when he was a teenager, but a nice computer.
FF took off because of the gaping hole in the market for a decent browser. Right now FF is just entering the general consumer conciousness as a 'possibly OK' product, enough to wake the slumbering MS giant. This is GOOD NEWS!
Regardless of the policies and merits of the respective companies, as soon as any corp. thinks
'hey, we have this business licked ' it all goes pear shaped. FF could have become victim to complacency without competition.
Seeing a big competitor in the rearview sharpens your thinking right up.
I like this trailer - it's full of ugly and uncharismatic people . Now that gives a guy like me hope for the future. Perhaps I should sign up for that 'rogue starpilot' evening class after all.
http://www.mirrordot.com/
for all your slashdotted site needs.
They were still in the process of caching up the trailer when I tried though.. it'll take a few moments.
says Chris McKay, a planetary scientist with the NASA Ames Research Center.... " Another possibility, he says, is that "it's some sort of organic goo. It could be some sort of organic polymer, essentially plastic particles. Maybe little polystyrene foam balls. Who knows?"
"maybe little polystyrene balls... who knows"???
Well done Chris, really.
It's quite obvious to me that the organic goo in the sky is most likely a huge pulsating brain. In fact after reviewing all the (stacks of) evidence I can say that it is most definately the brain of a malevolent group-mind, hellbent on the destruction of all Earthlings...
and we just pointed the way home.
I, for one, welcome our new 'nebulous cloud of little polystyrene ball' brained overlords
Hmm, this sounds great - but as with all these things I would welcome a Vedic scholars perspective. With my massive researching skills I found this quote which sheds a little light.
"...There is one book entitled Vaimanika-sastra that was dictated in trance during this century (20th - I assume. RWG)and purports to be a transcription of an ancient work preserved in the Akashic record."
"The medium in this case was Pandit Subbaraya Sastry, a 'walking lexicon gifted with occult perception', who began to dictate the Vaimanika-sastra to Mr. Venkatachala Sarma on August 1, 1918. The complete work was taken down in 23 exercise books up to August 23, 1923. In 1923, Subbaraya Sastry also had a draftsman prepare some drawings of the vimanas according to his instructions." quote ref
This sounds a little suspicious to me.
A little like John Edward 'dictating' a new chapter of the Old Testament called "Moses had Laser Pistols"
> It must be already 10x the number of people the whole development team will meet in their entire lives.
Really?
I ran a rough check on how many people I have met and it came to around 10,000 and that's without having to follow too many social branches. So if you are giving me X10 on that it = 100,000 and I am guessing there are more than 10 developers on the team.
Rather than aliens, it has been hypothesised by Nick Bostrom (PhD) in his Simulation Argument that our future selves are simulating us.
The crucial tennets of his argument being:
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a "posthuman" stage
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.
And that:
If (1) is true, then we will almost certainly go extinct before reaching posthumanity.
If (2) is true, then there must be a strong convergence among the courses of advanced civilizations so that virtually none contains any relatively wealthy individuals who desire to run ancestor-simulations and are free to do so.
If (3) is true, then we almost certainly live in a simulation. In the dark forest of our current ignorance, it seems sensible to apportion one's credence roughly evenly between (1), (2), and (3).
His strength is with the statistical analysis of how likely it is that we are actually simulations,I wouldn't want to spoil it for you but...
Greetings fellow ancestor simulation!
For more on the subject, I recommend you read around on his site dedicated to the hypothesis
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Anyone who finds this combination of people enjoyable is mentally troubled. When Seinfeld bounces his sitcom wit off Jason Alexander, we understand that 'George' is a fictional social maladroit and Jason Alexander's skills make the interplay humorous. Put Seinfeld's gregarious wit directly next to a real-life socially inept character and we have, not comedy, but tragedy. It's like watching Dad dancing, on stage, next to a breakdance champion.
The message we take away is : Gregarious + awkward = cringeworthy
But back in reality; Aristotle provided evidence for a spherical earth way back in 330BC and the Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by Eratosthenes. What else do we 'know' ?
I'm a veggie, and I'm always dismayed when the food corporations try to package veggie products like meat. It shows a pretty large lack of understanding of the market sector. Like , "Hey Jewish people, check out new 'Kosher Ham'!"
I don't mind them aiming for a "vaguely meaty" savoury flavour delivered in cylindrical form, but when they try and attempt "fried chicken" or "roast lamb", that's just weird.
I often try and mail the companies, but invariably get a mail form error or a telling bounceback : "customersatisfaction@megaglobalfoods.com is not a valid address on this system"
I'd nibble on the soylent green though, no problems.
there is a documentary "On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'") where Ridley Scott states explicitly that Deckard is an an Android. It's a very interesting film if you can find it. Warner recently issued takedowns on it from google video. In the doc it's revealed by one of the producers that Harrison Ford had a plan to sabotage the studios voiceover idea by doing it as bad as he possibly could, that way they would be forced by time pressures to release some form of 'directors cut'. Many key players are interviewed, Ridley Scott, Rutger Hauer, dudes from the FX team, etc. It's funny to see Rutger ridiculing the test screening audiences, also hearing that he came up with his immortal lines ('I've seen things ...')just half an hour prior to filming and got the OK from the production team to use them. Great documentary
The problem with driverless cars isn't the technology but insurance.
Many manufacturers have been dissuaded from pursuing the technology and installing in their vehicles because in the case of any accident the corporation would be liable. Obviously the 'driver' wouldn't be at fault because they wouldn't be driving.
No large corporation is going to put itself in line to pay out on every bump, scrape and minor slaying caused when their killer robo-cars Attack!
Surely dailymotion.com is where most people choose to place their "Big Media" clips these days? For now it is rendered invisible to corporate legislators due to:
1. having an unfortunate name that conjurs scatalogical images.
2. being partly in some kind of 'code' language known as "French"
3. You probably couldn't sue them for that much
Streaming interview : Mark Lawson interviews a journalist from Gramaphone magazine (one of Joyce Hatto's champions) and talks about the issue in general, with semi-amusing lack of tech-spertise. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio4/aod .shtml?radio4/frontrow_mon#
no. Lets imagine a potential alien civilisation more like this: ...etc, etc.
..." until I am a safe distance away.
you live in a typical suburban neighborhood, there are 200 houses within a 30-minute walk,
In my neighbourhood, there are a few houses where I have never met the occupants but can guess what sort of people live there from the clues.
1: The first house has a run down look, there is a drum kit sometimes played upstairs and the smell of 'herbs' emanates from time to time. There is a beatup car outside with stickers all over it which never moves. I guess it is a student house or hippies of some kind.
2: On this house neatly trimmed roses grow around the door, through the window is a very tidy room with some old furniture. The step is freakishly clean. I think an old lady lives there.
3: this house always has 3 broken windows, the holes are usually filled with the lids from fast food packaging. I often hear screaming or violent arguments from there. The tv volume is incredibly loud and can be heard intermittently across the neighbourhood, usually dim witted gameshows. Sometimes there is junk on the street where they have simply thrown it onto the road. It looks like they are demolishing their house from the inside.
The thing is : I don't want to say "hello" to the people in house number 3, in fact when I walk past it I think "I am invisible, I am invisible,
this is all true BTW, yet indicative. I'm pretty sure 8 dimensional extra-terrestrial squid things think the same way I do. Well, as sure as you lot seem to be about your analogies anyway.
A 'friend of mine' used to get free money out of ATMs in the late 80's by using the simple method of a piece of stickytape. you go to the ATM and draw out £5, on those old machines and when the gate opened you had time to stick a peice of tape across the dispensing rollers. You then hang around like surly teenagers while people fail to draw money out - after 5 people have done this you go back and withdraw another £5, when the gate opens you use a pair of tweezers to rip off the tape and claim the winnings (normally around £200 - £400). Yes, my friend had few morals when he was a teenager, but a nice computer.
FF took off because of the gaping hole in the market for a decent browser. Right now FF is just entering the general consumer conciousness as a 'possibly OK' product, enough to wake the slumbering MS giant.
This is GOOD NEWS!
Regardless of the policies and merits of the respective companies, as soon as any corp. thinks 'hey, we have this business licked ' it all goes pear shaped. FF could have become victim to complacency without competition. Seeing a big competitor in the rearview sharpens your thinking right up.
I like this trailer - it's full of ugly and uncharismatic people . Now that gives a guy like me hope for the future. Perhaps I should sign up for that 'rogue starpilot' evening class after all.
http://www.mirrordot.com/ for all your slashdotted site needs. They were still in the process of caching up the trailer when I tried though .. it'll take a few moments.
It's quite obvious to me that the organic goo in the sky is most likely a huge pulsating brain.
In fact after reviewing all the (stacks of) evidence I can say that it is most definately the brain of a malevolent group-mind, hellbent on the destruction of all Earthlings
and we just pointed the way home.
I, for one, welcome our new 'nebulous cloud of little polystyrene ball' brained overlords
Hmm, this sounds great - but as with all these things I would welcome a Vedic scholars perspective. With my massive researching skills I found this quote which sheds a little light.
"...There is one book entitled Vaimanika-sastra that was dictated in trance during this century (20th - I assume. RWG)and purports to be a transcription of an ancient work preserved in the Akashic record." "The medium in this case was Pandit Subbaraya Sastry, a 'walking lexicon gifted with occult perception', who began to dictate the Vaimanika-sastra to Mr. Venkatachala Sarma on August 1, 1918. The complete work was taken down in 23 exercise books up to August 23, 1923. In 1923, Subbaraya Sastry also had a draftsman prepare some drawings of the vimanas according to his instructions." quote ref
This sounds a little suspicious to me. A little like John Edward 'dictating' a new chapter of the Old Testament called "Moses had Laser Pistols"
Although gravity doesn't disapear after 20 miles, you can acheive geostationary orbit at 22 miles - so they weren't too far off.
... they were 22 miles off
No, wait - I think I'm missing the obvious
> It must be already 10x the number of people the whole development team will meet in their entire lives.
Really?
I ran a rough check on how many people I have met and it came to around 10,000 and that's without having to follow too many social branches.
So if you are giving me X10 on that it = 100,000 and I am guessing there are more than 10 developers on the team.
I really am an arse
Rather than aliens, it has been hypothesised by Nick Bostrom (PhD) in his Simulation Argument that our future selves are simulating us.
The crucial tennets of his argument being:(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a "posthuman" stage
And that:(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.
If (1) is true, then we will almost certainly go extinct before reaching posthumanity. If (2) is true, then there must be a strong convergence among the courses of advanced civilizations so that virtually none contains any relatively wealthy individuals who desire to run ancestor-simulations and are free to do so. If (3) is true, then we almost certainly live in a simulation. In the dark forest of our current ignorance, it seems sensible to apportion one's credence roughly evenly between (1), (2), and (3).
His strength is with the statistical analysis of how likely it is that we are actually simulations,I wouldn't want to spoil it for you but
For more on the subject, I recommend you read around on his site dedicated to the hypothesis