It's a threat you fool. If I face the threat of my legs being broken by a debt collector, I don't start dancing around the room to demonstrate ways in which my legs aren't broken. If Kim Jon Il threatens to nuke my city, I will not start sending him mocking letters saying "Where's the radiation, Kim?"
They're scaring me because soon they could start killing us. Here in Melbourne, Australia, the air was filled with smoke today, and for a whole week last month, due to the bushfires. Our plants are dying, due to stage 3 water restrictions, and I see now from that webpage that we are in the tenth year of the driest decade on record. That's a hell of a long time to shrug off. In short, it's been getting worse here my entire life, and I can easily see it becoming unbearable. We should at least try to stave off what may be inevitable - I'd rather live through an ice age with fire and warm clothing than a hot age with nothing but air conditioning and fans.
A lot of sci-fi mirrors what's happening in the real world. Ever seen Star Wars? The tagline for that should have been: "A War In Space Is Always A Cold War."
What, like the Megadrive from Sega, and the Playstation from Sony? It may be correct, but at least you avoid confusion - Megadrive sounds like a new storage medium, and we all know what Wii sounds like without the Nintendo.
You're not a relative of Sarah Conner... from the future, are you? You really freaked me out with the "articles are from 2006" comment - I thought I'd been applying the wrong year to everything I sign, and now it's almost over!
Rangefinders perceive things. They're probably more exact than your eyes, but why not use them for a robot? It still has to use the distance perceived on the fly. Using two beams to judge distance is so old-school (The Dambusters!). A GPS may be cheating if used to detect speed limits, but I reckon it'd be fine to run OCR on for a map, tell you speed and distance etc. A lot of people use them now, so it's not unrealistic.
You should be modded up. Unfortunately, most of the US slashdotters actually seem to be totally insane when it comes to guns. It's worse than bickering over linux. How many posters own guns, I wonder?
Don't forget the world's worst acronym - 'www'. It's 3 times as long as the words it replaces, and yet you'd sound like a fool if you told someone to go to "world wide web dot google dot com"
Dude, I'm so with you on this. I go to Subway every now and then, and the cheese choices alone just make me want to cry. There should be a preset option for people who can't be bothered describing how they want their sauce layered between each ingredient, or just plain don't care, like me. Half the time I just ask the person behind the counter to "surprise me."
Those displays are cool, but you'd definitely have to look at the keyboard for a while - it'd be a bit like switching from a guitar to a fretless instrument. Also, where would you rest your fingers when not typing?
by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 10, @11:04AM (#16790563)
I fail to see what's wrong with an ethernet cable. 1000mbps. Enlighten me.
Backing up to a site 32 miles away? Come now, people would be tripping over the cable constantly, you're going to lose the plastic tab on at least one end:)
I'm confused. I remember watching Shopping, and thinking it was a good movie, despite being ultra-depressing. I loved the first Mortal Kombat, and Event Horizon. I liked Soldier, and thought Resident Evil was ok. I regret paying money to see AvP. Nothing I've seen of his bears any resemblance to Shopping, which was a gritty British thing. I don't know what to hope for or expect:/
I haven't had a close look at that image, but I think lightsabres are white in the middle, and the corona is the only colourful thing about them. Only found that out a week ago, when I started fiddling with some photos of my own:)
Texans are pretty funny. They've got this average sized state, covered by a fog of steak fumes. If they really want big, why not move here? Or to one of these places?:-P
I love this guy - for years I have been haunted by the memory of a rock singer powering up (at what appears, in my memories, to be a gas meter), with lightning crackling everywhere, and the closest thing I could find was this:-(
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It's a threat you fool. If I face the threat of my legs being broken by a debt collector, I don't start dancing around the room to demonstrate ways in which my legs aren't broken.
If Kim Jon Il threatens to nuke my city, I will not start sending him mocking letters saying "Where's the radiation, Kim?"
Seriously, pure mod madness is all I can see here. It's hilarious and disturbing.
A lot of sci-fi mirrors what's happening in the real world. Ever seen Star Wars? The tagline for that should have been: "A War In Space Is Always A Cold War."
What, like the Megadrive from Sega, and the Playstation from Sony? It may be correct, but at least you avoid confusion - Megadrive sounds like a new storage medium, and we all know what Wii sounds like without the Nintendo.
You're not a relative of Sarah Conner... from the future, are you? You really freaked me out with the "articles are from 2006" comment - I thought I'd been applying the wrong year to everything I sign, and now it's almost over!
Rangefinders perceive things. They're probably more exact than your eyes, but why not use them for a robot? It still has to use the distance perceived on the fly. Using two beams to judge distance is so old-school (The Dambusters!). A GPS may be cheating if used to detect speed limits, but I reckon it'd be fine to run OCR on for a map, tell you speed and distance etc. A lot of people use them now, so it's not unrealistic.
You should be modded up. Unfortunately, most of the US slashdotters actually seem to be totally insane when it comes to guns. It's worse than bickering over linux. How many posters own guns, I wonder?
Don't forget the world's worst acronym - 'www'. It's 3 times as long as the words it replaces, and yet you'd sound like a fool if you told someone to go to "world wide web dot google dot com"
Dude, I'm so with you on this. I go to Subway every now and then, and the cheese choices alone just make me want to cry. There should be a preset option for people who can't be bothered describing how they want their sauce layered between each ingredient, or just plain don't care, like me. Half the time I just ask the person behind the counter to "surprise me."
I don't know what he's saying, but all those big words... they move me.
I would have liked the ending from the book - where Saruman goes and fucks up the shire. Great evil twist, and quite frightening in the book.
Those displays are cool, but you'd definitely have to look at the keyboard for a while - it'd be a bit like switching from a guitar to a fretless instrument. Also, where would you rest your fingers when not typing?
Nazis (plural, not posessive). I hate you all for making me care enough to post this.
I was going to post that, but as a Dr Cox quote from Scrubs. Which came first, I wonder? Seriously, you could get a lot of good sitcom jokes off bash.
But seriously, for anything offsite, no.
I'm confused. I remember watching Shopping, and thinking it was a good movie, despite being ultra-depressing. I loved the first Mortal Kombat, and Event Horizon. I liked Soldier, and thought Resident Evil was ok. I regret paying money to see AvP. Nothing I've seen of his bears any resemblance to Shopping, which was a gritty British thing. I don't know what to hope for or expect :/
GEORGE!!!?!
I knew that goddamn Peter the Pumpkin-eater was up to no good.
God help you - between that and the dubbing of Mad Max, I would have declared war on the US long ago, were I in charge of Australia :-/
I haven't had a close look at that image, but I think lightsabres are white in the middle, and the corona is the only colourful thing about them. Only found that out a week ago, when I started fiddling with some photos of my own :)
Is that funny? I'm ready to laugh, but I don't understand the joke. I much prefer this guy's sense of humour.
Texans are pretty funny. They've got this average sized state, covered by a fog of steak fumes. If they really want big, why not move here? Or to one of these places? :-P
I love this guy - for years I have been haunted by the memory of a rock singer powering up (at what appears, in my memories, to be a gas meter), with lightning crackling everywhere, and the closest thing I could find was this :-(