Would it be possible to send the audio signal through the mains in the house? I guess that would only send it to every room on the same circuit... And would likely be a terrible idea. Why don't you just wire your house for audio?
My friend told me most Indians don't know how to swim.
In the US Navy, the overwhelming majority of those who require special training to qualify for basic swimming proficiency are African American. Whether this is due to cultural or socioeconomic influences, I do not know. But it is very often the case.
Asia is a separate continent from Europe, but they are one piece. For this analogy to work, the original, unbroken cookie would have to be two cookies.
The original short stories were about the interaction of simple logical rules with cognition and general decision making. The small portion of the film that discussed the thought process of the actual "robot" did not follow that same thread.
As the Wikipedia article discusses, the film was not based on the short stories at all, but on an Agatha Christie detective novel. I feel that it certainly kept true to that spirit.
Well, Hitler is a fairly well known figure. I could have said "sabotage the German industrial revolution and negotiate a better armistice after WWI" if you prefer.
Um, ya. I just want to add that my problem is people who start with crappy sequels, and miss out on the originals. So often when things like this happen, the original stories are much more meaningful than any derivatives.
Like the movie I, Robot. People who saw that and never read the short stories genuinely believed that film to be a meaningful derivation of the original. But it didn't even begin to do Asimov justice. Now those people won't read the book, because they saw the terrible movie. And they think that's all there is to it. They won't ever have the opportunity to enjoy Asimov's work. And that is a shame.
The problem isn't that it's an insult to some dead guy. Dead people don't care about insults. The problem is all the people who won't go back and read the original work, who might have before.
Sure, maybe a reinvention of the work will inspire more interest in the old stuff, but I doubt it. Most of the people who go back and read the old stuff would have stumbled across it anyway. I, Robot isn't an extremely unusual book.
I highly doubt these books will be anything like Asimov's work, and anyone who enjoyed the original short stories is not likely not enjoy these. I do not have faith in this author to do the series justice.
It has nothing to do with "canon." These books were about the implications of pure, simple logic on cognition. They weren't about people, or character development, or any such nonsense. Hell, I don't even give a crap what Asimov would have thought about it. It's about the content of the books; there were like big, intriguing logic puzzles. Will this guy be writing that? I doubt it.
In America, a lot of that crap would get you shot, I don't care if you're from the "government" or not. Even federal agents need probable cause (or some other silly legal term for "a pretty darn good reason to look through your stuff," ridiculousness about border controls post 9/11 notwithstanding). Why do people still live in countries where something like that is allowed to go on?
Unfortunately, RO systems still require high pressures to work. That defeats the benefit of this new system, wherein no high pressure system (thereby no steel piping, no expensive pumps) is required.
Unfortunately, the right to distribute via the internet is not the same as the right to distribute physical copies. It is a much larger legal hurdle than physical one.
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Actually, my karma has been stuck on excellent for several years now. I really had no idea what "tethering" was, and just wanted to let others know.
For all of us cavemen out there who still just use our cell phones to make phone calls:
Tethering is using a mobile device to gain Internet access for another device.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering
Would it be possible to send the audio signal through the mains in the house? I guess that would only send it to every room on the same circuit... And would likely be a terrible idea. Why don't you just wire your house for audio?
My friend told me most Indians don't know how to swim.
In the US Navy, the overwhelming majority of those who require special training to qualify for basic swimming proficiency are African American. Whether this is due to cultural or socioeconomic influences, I do not know. But it is very often the case.
Also the "Why can't black people swim" one.
No, if you break them in half, they just become two separate threads. It's kinda like if you break a cookie in half, it becomes two distinct cookies.
Asia is a separate continent from Europe, but they are one piece. For this analogy to work, the original, unbroken cookie would have to be two cookies.
Here you are, good sir:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=u2zXSaDFi7o
shift them forward in time (or backwards) such that the earth's rotation places an enemy installation in their path
Could we shift them backwards in time so that they hit the enemy installation right before it fires the missile?
Eventually you'll become part of America simply because we won't be able to tell the difference.
As long as you have a sign and it is clearly marked that trespassers will be shot.
I would whole heartedly disagree.
The original short stories were about the interaction of simple logical rules with cognition and general decision making. The small portion of the film that discussed the thought process of the actual "robot" did not follow that same thread.
As the Wikipedia article discusses, the film was not based on the short stories at all, but on an Agatha Christie detective novel. I feel that it certainly kept true to that spirit.
Well, Hitler is a fairly well known figure. I could have said "sabotage the German industrial revolution and negotiate a better armistice after WWI" if you prefer.
Do you have an extremely hilarious blog I could read?
Like, killing Hitler breaks the first law, but follows the zeroth?
God, I think I would cry if they ever made Stranger in a Strange Land into a terrible Hollywood movie.
Um, ya. I just want to add that my problem is people who start with crappy sequels, and miss out on the originals. So often when things like this happen, the original stories are much more meaningful than any derivatives.
Like the movie I, Robot. People who saw that and never read the short stories genuinely believed that film to be a meaningful derivation of the original. But it didn't even begin to do Asimov justice. Now those people won't read the book, because they saw the terrible movie. And they think that's all there is to it. They won't ever have the opportunity to enjoy Asimov's work. And that is a shame.
The problem isn't that it's an insult to some dead guy. Dead people don't care about insults. The problem is all the people who won't go back and read the original work, who might have before.
Sure, maybe a reinvention of the work will inspire more interest in the old stuff, but I doubt it. Most of the people who go back and read the old stuff would have stumbled across it anyway. I, Robot isn't an extremely unusual book.
I highly doubt these books will be anything like Asimov's work, and anyone who enjoyed the original short stories is not likely not enjoy these. I do not have faith in this author to do the series justice.
It has nothing to do with "canon." These books were about the implications of pure, simple logic on cognition. They weren't about people, or character development, or any such nonsense. Hell, I don't even give a crap what Asimov would have thought about it. It's about the content of the books; there were like big, intriguing logic puzzles. Will this guy be writing that? I doubt it.
If these are the same idiots who "authorized" that god-awful movie, then these books will be yet another waste of perfectly good trees.
Wow, are you serious? Like, in the UK you can go to court for calling someone "bogus?" Like, fer serious?
The more I hear about your "rights" over there the less I think America is really going down the crapper.
Clearly they should have trolled his comments.
In America, a lot of that crap would get you shot, I don't care if you're from the "government" or not. Even federal agents need probable cause (or some other silly legal term for "a pretty darn good reason to look through your stuff," ridiculousness about border controls post 9/11 notwithstanding). Why do people still live in countries where something like that is allowed to go on?
Unfortunately, RO systems still require high pressures to work. That defeats the benefit of this new system, wherein no high pressure system (thereby no steel piping, no expensive pumps) is required.
Unfortunately, the right to distribute via the internet is not the same as the right to distribute physical copies. It is a much larger legal hurdle than physical one.
"Arbitrary" may have been a poor word choice. As Aris Katsaris has pointed out, "subjective" might be a better term to use.