I guess you'd do all those things. Well, maybe you wouldn't be able to get to port with a 300W supply if you were in the middle of the atlantic, the sea is far to choppy for something that underpowered to be able to control its direction. A radio beacon would be a good idea though. Admittedly, the chances are that if you're in a lifeboat with a beacon you'd get picked up pretty quickly.
Another possibility is a yacht which has sails with solar cells stuck to them. You'd have propulsion and power all in one. I could imagine a computer control for the whole lot. If the weather got too servere you could fold the sails and run on diesel or an electic motor.
A company called Solar Sailor actually makes these things, but they are really expensive.
And having lots of electricity from the solar cells would make it fairly pleasant inside, you cold use it to power gizmos like this.
Of the course the other possibility for gizmos like this is to run them off solar power in the wilderness somwhere. If you made a smaller one, you could have a backpack with a waterbottle which magically fills up.
Like I say, being able to make fresh water out of moist air and electricity opens up all sorts of possibilities.
I went to some free form jazz last night. Everybody seemed to be playing by themselves all at the same time and in a very random fashion. The pianist was just mashing the keyboard. I'm sure a computer could create sounds like that easily.
maybe the players were some kind of robots...
In Philip K Dick novel, maybe YOU are some kind of robot.
Looking for motivated developers to work on an exciting video game project.
Must be willing to work for free.
Looking for motivated philanthropists to work on an exciting underprivileged human life improvement project.
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Oh come on! GTA's attitude is best summed up by the advice "If you kill that hooker, you can get your money back." Comparing it to charity work is a bit silly.
Really, most bottled water is just tap water, a plastic bottle, and marketing. I put my tap water through a tabletop filter pitcher before drinking it. Yeah, I'm a little bit paranoid about what might be in tap water.
Flouride is in your tap water, poisoning your vital essences.
Use your imagination, it's a way to turn electricity into drinking water. It would be useful on a lifeboat for example, you could run it off solar power. People can survive for a month with no food but only a couple of days without water.
Mind you, on a lifeboat I'd probably use a solar still.
I really hate this Nerd Chic thing. One look at the people doing it tells you they are not really nerds, more like art school hipsters. Hell the whole point of Nerds is that they don't like being in the spotlight and have a crap sense of aesthetics. Some douchebag self promotionist with a Mac and a CSS rich 'collaborative blogging' website is not a nerd.
The true price might not be zero, but the point isn't that a business will ignore the inital development costs, but that after recovering the original investment, they would begin to drop the price torwards the marginal costs.
You mean like rent falls to zero once the landlord has paid off the mortgage? Oh, wait, it doesn't.
Or maybe like the interest on our bank balance drops toward zero. Oh wait, that doesn't either.
The fact is that if you have $x and you invest it you expect to get $x * BaseRate in the bank, and much higher than that if you invest it with any risk, like in a house or some IP which you rent out.
The reason that copyright gives people a monopoly is precisely because otherwise the people that create stuff and thus have development costs they need to pay off would otherwise have to compete with people who merely copy and have no costs and could easily undercut them.
I read that in the XBox vs Playstation 2 contest Sony were able to drop the cost faster than Microsoft because they owned the more of the IP of the chips, i.e. the processor and the GPU. The Xbox had an Intel CPU and a NVidia GPU, neither of which were made by Microsoft. Sony owned all the IP and eventually shipped slimline PS2 with the CPU and GPU in one chip.
With the XBox 360 Microsoft went for a 3 core IBM PPC design and an ATI GPU. In both cases Microsoft licensed the IP and subcontracts the manufacturing of the chips, the CPU is made by Chartered and the GPU is made by TSMC. Microsoft will make sure that both chips are die shrunk as aggressively as possible to cut costs, and maybe combine them at some point. In fact this was the main reason for switching from Intel and NVidia to IBM and ATI. Intel at least was unwilling to sell Microsoft a license to make x86 CPUs.
So I'd expect agressive price cuts on the XBox 360, that's what it was designed for from the start.
In a closed source for-profit world, the price rapidly sinks to the marginal cost per copy. Which is zero.
No it doesn't. Movies, music and software have always been priced way above the marginal cost per copy, mostly because that isn't the 'true price'. If you spend money on developing software, making a movie or promoting a band you expect to sell that product above the marginal cost to get back the investment and make a profit on top. If the profit was less than you'd get from investing it at base rate you might as well have left the money in a bank somewhere and saved yourself the trouble.
Keep in mind, that psychosis tends to diminish your effective mental ability. If you actually want to keep your job and perform well, the first thing you'd do is try to drop this irrational suicide-complex. (After that, you might want to consider that you don't actually care that much about your performance, and that you are living an act of collectivist desperation.)
Something you might want to consider is that you are engaging in the oldest and most inefficient form of collectivism: self-debasement to a figure of power, wrapped up in a mystical sheath of righteousness and "power".
Get psychological help while you're still drawing breath and a salary.
We could take it one step further. There'd be different types of military units, grunts on foot, Humvees with door guns and M1A1 tanks. When the next war happens we'd vote on the internet which types to produce and where to send them. Bingo, collaborative Tower Defense for the whole nation.
On average the US has a war every couple of years. Plus there are riots to be put down back home, so you could always join in a war somewhere.
I favour a water cannon full of napalm followed by slow moving flamethrower tanks for urban conflict.
But then who will pester the pesters to kill themselves? Maybe we should have some sort of übertroll to make them all fight each other. Hell, I'd do it. Then I'd be the only troll in a world of victim. Soon I'd be President, and then Supreme Leader.
You should kill yourself for suggesting this by the way. You're a despicable, worthless excuse for a human being.
I always thought the original Terminator had cat like levels of intelligence. Ok, maybe some preprogrammed stuff too, like robbing a gun shop and killing people with the right name in the phonebook, but in terms of self awareness it was cat like. Of course in T2 they had a Terminator which was essentially human so it could learn the value of human life or some such crap.
Ha, if my cat was bigger it would torture me with the casual sadism it does mice and birds. It's quite incapable of understanding Hollywood feelgood bullshit about the value of life, lucky animal. It's programmed to catch and eat things and it has the sensory and motor nervous system to do it. It's not really built for introspection but it is very good at its catch and eat niche despite (or maybe even because of) this.
I bet a tank or UAV with cat like intelligence would be very good at killing terrorists. You could even imagine a Skynet type system evolving out of the larger but still non self aware machine that checked the performance if itself and the tanks and UAVs and designed improved versions by mutating the ones it had, running simulations to pick candidates and then checking on the real world performance to decide which candidate to mass manufacture. As chip technology improved it would be possible to improve intelligence with each generation, Moores law style and a sort of managed evolution would gradually find new areas of organism space to explore.
Technology Sgt Hartman: Technician! what is your mission? Technician: umm, fix the server Technology Sgt Hartman: You're in the army now, you little maggot. The fist and last things that come out of your mouth will be "Sir". What is your mission Technician: Sir! Fix the server! Sir! Technology Sgt Hartman: I can't hear you, maggot! What is your mission? Technician: SIR! FIX THE SERVER! SIR! Technology Sgt Hartman: Right, QUICKMARCH!
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Why do all these slashdot hyped hacker projects have to be so half assed.
I guess you'd do all those things. Well, maybe you wouldn't be able to get to port with a 300W supply if you were in the middle of the atlantic, the sea is far to choppy for something that underpowered to be able to control its direction. A radio beacon would be a good idea though. Admittedly, the chances are that if you're in a lifeboat with a beacon you'd get picked up pretty quickly.
Another possibility is a yacht which has sails with solar cells stuck to them. You'd have propulsion and power all in one. I could imagine a computer control for the whole lot. If the weather got too servere you could fold the sails and run on diesel or an electic motor.
A company called Solar Sailor actually makes these things, but they are really expensive.
And having lots of electricity from the solar cells would make it fairly pleasant inside, you cold use it to power gizmos like this.
Of the course the other possibility for gizmos like this is to run them off solar power in the wilderness somwhere. If you made a smaller one, you could have a backpack with a waterbottle which magically fills up.
Like I say, being able to make fresh water out of moist air and electricity opens up all sorts of possibilities.
I went to some free form jazz last night. Everybody seemed to be playing by themselves all at the same time and in a very random fashion. The pianist was just mashing the keyboard. I'm sure a computer could create sounds like that easily.
maybe the players were some kind of robots...
In Philip K Dick novel, maybe YOU are some kind of robot.
We started wondering about Peanut Butter Carbonate, etc.
Put in some tartaric acid and you'd have peanut butter flavoured sherbet.
You could sell that shit.
iANAL would be a good name for a design obsessed company that sues its fans.
Looking for motivated developers to work on an exciting video game project.
Must be willing to work for free.
Looking for motivated philanthropists to work on an exciting underprivileged human life improvement project.
Must be willing to work for free.
Oh come on! GTA's attitude is best summed up by the advice "If you kill that hooker, you can get your money back." Comparing it to charity work is a bit silly.
0.55 milliLoC per second.
Really, most bottled water is just tap water, a plastic bottle, and marketing. I put my tap water through a tabletop filter pitcher before drinking it. Yeah, I'm a little bit paranoid about what might be in tap water.
Flouride is in your tap water, poisoning your vital essences.
Use your imagination, it's a way to turn electricity into drinking water. It would be useful on a lifeboat for example, you could run it off solar power. People can survive for a month with no food but only a couple of days without water.
Mind you, on a lifeboat I'd probably use a solar still.
I really hate this Nerd Chic thing. One look at the people doing it tells you they are not really nerds, more like art school hipsters. Hell the whole point of Nerds is that they don't like being in the spotlight and have a crap sense of aesthetics. Some douchebag self promotionist with a Mac and a CSS rich 'collaborative blogging' website is not a nerd.
At least it doesn't blink, like the power led on Dells in standby mode. What were they thinking?
The true price might not be zero, but the point isn't that a business will ignore the inital development costs, but that after recovering the original investment, they would begin to drop the price torwards the marginal costs.
You mean like rent falls to zero once the landlord has paid off the mortgage? Oh, wait, it doesn't.
Or maybe like the interest on our bank balance drops toward zero. Oh wait, that doesn't either.
The fact is that if you have $x and you invest it you expect to get $x * BaseRate in the bank, and much higher than that if you invest it with any risk, like in a house or some IP which you rent out.
The reason that copyright gives people a monopoly is precisely because otherwise the people that create stuff and thus have development costs they need to pay off would otherwise have to compete with people who merely copy and have no costs and could easily undercut them.
The marginal cost per copy is only zero if you don't have to amortize the development costs. Which pirates don't.
I read that in the XBox vs Playstation 2 contest Sony were able to drop the cost faster than Microsoft because they owned the more of the IP of the chips, i.e. the processor and the GPU. The Xbox had an Intel CPU and a NVidia GPU, neither of which were made by Microsoft. Sony owned all the IP and eventually shipped slimline PS2 with the CPU and GPU in one chip.
With the XBox 360 Microsoft went for a 3 core IBM PPC design and an ATI GPU. In both cases Microsoft licensed the IP and subcontracts the manufacturing of the chips, the CPU is made by Chartered and the GPU is made by TSMC. Microsoft will make sure that both chips are die shrunk as aggressively as possible to cut costs, and maybe combine them at some point. In fact this was the main reason for switching from Intel and NVidia to IBM and ATI. Intel at least was unwilling to sell Microsoft a license to make x86 CPUs.
So I'd expect agressive price cuts on the XBox 360, that's what it was designed for from the start.
In a closed source for-profit world, the price rapidly sinks to the marginal cost per copy. Which is zero.
No it doesn't. Movies, music and software have always been priced way above the marginal cost per copy, mostly because that isn't the 'true price'. If you spend money on developing software, making a movie or promoting a band you expect to sell that product above the marginal cost to get back the investment and make a profit on top. If the profit was less than you'd get from investing it at base rate you might as well have left the money in a bank somewhere and saved yourself the trouble.
Full action killbots must be launched soon.
We'll add the morality core in SP1 next year.
What about Soma.
I had an elective castration,
DARWINED!
Well it proves that you can be old without acting old.
La la la, must more get more vicodin.
Keep in mind, that psychosis tends to diminish your effective mental ability. If you actually want to keep your job and perform well, the first thing you'd do is try to drop this irrational suicide-complex. (After that, you might want to consider that you don't actually care that much about your performance, and that you are living an act of collectivist desperation.)
Something you might want to consider is that you are engaging in the oldest and most inefficient form of collectivism: self-debasement to a figure of power, wrapped up in a mystical sheath of righteousness and "power".
Get psychological help while you're still drawing breath and a salary.
WHO ARE YOU CALLING A PSYCHO?!
We could take it one step further. There'd be different types of military units, grunts on foot, Humvees with door guns and M1A1 tanks. When the next war happens we'd vote on the internet which types to produce and where to send them. Bingo, collaborative Tower Defense for the whole nation.
On average the US has a war every couple of years. Plus there are riots to be put down back home, so you could always join in a war somewhere.
I favour a water cannon full of napalm followed by slow moving flamethrower tanks for urban conflict.
But then who will pester the pesters to kill themselves? Maybe we should have some sort of übertroll to make them all fight each other. Hell, I'd do it. Then I'd be the only troll in a world of victim. Soon I'd be President, and then Supreme Leader.
You should kill yourself for suggesting this by the way. You're a despicable, worthless excuse for a human being.
I always thought the original Terminator had cat like levels of intelligence. Ok, maybe some preprogrammed stuff too, like robbing a gun shop and killing people with the right name in the phonebook, but in terms of self awareness it was cat like. Of course in T2 they had a Terminator which was essentially human so it could learn the value of human life or some such crap.
Ha, if my cat was bigger it would torture me with the casual sadism it does mice and birds. It's quite incapable of understanding Hollywood feelgood bullshit about the value of life, lucky animal. It's programmed to catch and eat things and it has the sensory and motor nervous system to do it. It's not really built for introspection but it is very good at its catch and eat niche despite (or maybe even because of) this.
I bet a tank or UAV with cat like intelligence would be very good at killing terrorists. You could even imagine a Skynet type system evolving out of the larger but still non self aware machine that checked the performance if itself and the tanks and UAVs and designed improved versions by mutating the ones it had, running simulations to pick candidates and then checking on the real world performance to decide which candidate to mass manufacture. As chip technology improved it would be possible to improve intelligence with each generation, Moores law style and a sort of managed evolution would gradually find new areas of organism space to explore.
You should make them do hollerbacks
Technology Sgt Hartman: Technician! what is your mission?
Technician: umm, fix the server
Technology Sgt Hartman: You're in the army now, you little maggot. The fist and last things that come out of your mouth will be "Sir". What is your mission
Technician: Sir! Fix the server! Sir!
Technology Sgt Hartman: I can't hear you, maggot! What is your mission?
Technician: SIR! FIX THE SERVER! SIR!
Technology Sgt Hartman: Right, QUICKMARCH!