Asimov doesn't state the how, but the ability to alter moods and memory at will are being worked on right as we speak. Hell just look up some of the Japanese research that lets you control people like a remote control car and that's old news. Asimov also shows later on that machines can duplicate Mule's ability so it's not 'mystical' in nature, it really is just something we don't understand but are based on theories we actually posses today. So it's a case where we have theories that say its possible, we're finding ways to actually do it in reality, and he just endowed a character with those abilities without all the encumbrance of machinery... I'm willing to forgive that the way I forgive FTL. So I don't see his ability as something that makes the series fantastical even if the *way* he has those abilities is stretching probability to the breaking point.
Unlike The Force which can let a meatbag of a couple dozen kilos stop the forward momentum of starship the size of a city that we blatantly know is impossible unless our understanding of reality is totally skewed. Things like that coupled with all the other abilities The Force imbues their practitioners with is why its just another name for Magic.
"Science that is unknown to us"? The same thing could be said for Dungeons & Dragons then. You've got people walking around who have the ability to nullify physics with a thought and with no energy requirement except happy thoughts. Fantasy.
Haven't read the Hive series or Childhood's End so can't comment on those.
Stranger has several elements to it that also qualify it for the fantasy genre, its more a hybrid imho but it definitely is in "Speculative Fiction" although the reason I think most put it in science fiction is because Heinlein wrote it. So if I was forced to put it in fantasy or scifi? I'd put it in both since the world the story was based in was future based with all the toys (flying cars) that world is supposed to have and it's pretty obvious who Michael really was at the last pages there which qualifies it for fantasy. Although Heinlein's portrayal of the mystic elements was as unaccepted/unknown true knowledge which is why I think most don't question it as scifi. Regardless of its genre, it's an awesome book. I always tell friends to read it and Starship Troopers right after.
Asimov's Foundation series though I'd firmly put into science fiction. Asimov never pulls magical answers out of his ass, it might be a fantastical extrapolation of known or theorized phenomena but its not just random bs. His work has the *potential* to be real no matter how small the chance is, although marketing and propaganda theory give it quite a bit of factual basis... both of which came about *after* the series was imagined.
"The Force" and all that it can do on the other hand is pure magic unless you consider religious beliefs factual basis for its potential existence. The ftl in the series isn't explained and it doesn't need to be in scifi imho, if we knew how ftl worked we'd have it so it's one of those points I forgive the genre. The Force on the other hand is something we can wrap our minds around and every real world concept it touches on is mystical which firmly puts it in the fantasy genre in my opinion, the aliens could be elves/dwarves/halflings and no one would question it in the fantasy genre. Funny looking aliens don't automatically make something scifi in my eyes.
Well one reason is that you just have to ssh in to your server once you're through the border and download the bootloader+extra bits you set aside to be urandomed and you're back in business. This takes a few minutes and there is no overt evidence of encryption vs if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda. So there is no difference between my scenario vs yours except the time of the data retrieval. If they can make you download the bootloader they can make you download everything on your vpn too.
The energy of putting it in the container against gravity could be all the energy needed so it dribbles out... assuming its not lighter than whatever it's mixed with.
Personal opinion is that Star Wars isn't any sub-genre of Science Fiction, it belongs under Fantasy as Space Fantasy. So it's still a part of the overall SF but putting it as part of Science Fiction just because space is involved... you might as well include Dungeons & Dragons since it has dimensional travel.
Truecrypt + dd the bootloader into a file that you store off your person then urandom over it. Restore once you've entered sane laws again. Not sure if this is 100% but unless they pull out an expert or truecrypt identifies itself elsewhere in the drive it'll look like you're just someone who urandomed his whole drive as a precaution during travel.
Just went to Canada last week, passport required. Entering the USA without your passport is subject to a $100 fine if they feel like it but they'll let you in.
The computer animation is based on spectrograph data we've received. There is no claim it's 100% accurate, only that it is based on *real* data. So putting the painting, which is purely an artists imagination, and the computer reproduction of the atmosphere, based on real data, on the same level is unfair.
Also to answer your question did I read your original comment? "No one knows what Pluto looks like, but somehow we know what another planet looks like from hundres/thousands of lightyears away? Makes no sense to me.". Yes, yes I did, and you're wrong.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00825
We don't have awesome photos of Pluto, but it's not some vague mystery that's totally unknown. 2015 will get us better photos. Also I'd guess that the methods we use to gather data about exoplanets isn't something we can use inside the solar system due to being blinded by Sol.
I guess the only usefulness for the remotely operated light would be that *something* is out there. Although I guess how much of a threat it is could be defeated by having several UAV's actively scouting several places and blowing up random stuff to throw the enemy off. But still, lets you know that something is out there even if its just a UAV.
They want to be #1 in smartphones part of that rank comes with a bulls-eye on their back. They're king of the hill and even if I personally dislike apple there is nothing wrong with them being #1 in my opinion when its due to quality and services they provide to those who love them. But they've started to use cheap shots to stay there so haters are just getting even more reason to hate them and even neutrals are starting to catch on that maybe apple is deserving of that hate this whole time. Personally I'm not surprised apple went this route, it fits perfectly in line with how they treat technology, only Sony has a longer and more glorious past of being aholes
Most people, historically at least, on slashdot work in the IT industry. Market instability and absolutely no loyalty from our employers is what we *expect*. Our grandfathers, possibly fathers, are the last generation that believed the places they started working at when they were 18 would be the places they would retire from. I prefer this, perhaps when I have a family and kids and need stability I'll change my mind but my rational mind has no issue with it. If me being unemployed means that the government doesn't put its fingers deeper into my life its worth it.
There is little difference between you putting a snowplow (successfully) on your bike and someone spending their entire day on facebook. Neither really adds anything back to the pool of humanity... you just have a cooler story. So where does the guaranteed basic income come from? All the Type A people who happen to be commercially viable Type A's subsidize the rest of us who would be perfectly happy sitting in a library organizing books or cataloging random bs no one else cares about? Sort of unfair to them, cool for me, but sad for them... and if enough of them give up and shoot themselves in the head like their prone to do.... I'll starve... and then you'll end up with the only truly guaranteed basic income... whatever you can rip out of the cold dead hands of your neighbor.
Perhaps when we have nigh unlimited energy and can create food and shelter with zero hard cost this will be a viable idea... until then it requires the many to stand on the backs of the few to keep them alive... until they crush them to death.
Doesn't sound that different from LA traffic actually. Except that the car doing 100mph is weaving around traffic since everyone else is doing ~80mph. If we actually implemented a law that required people doing 65mph from being in the far left lane (our 'fast' lane/1st lane) then we'd be fine. Most of our freeways have 4+ lanes. Going into Los Angeles proper your looking at 8-10 lanes per side depending on how you want to count.
If the defense doesn't show up isn't he at least required to READ the evidence? Make sure the defendant isn't being sued for something impossible? If so then he should have noticed thedirty.com in the link used as evidence and questioned them why thedirty link is there when thedirt is everywhere else.
The notation comment was meant to imply that most of us don't need "theory" notated to explain which definition is being used. The person he replied to used it in its proper context, he was just too dense to get it. Perhaps my writing skill is too crappy to convey what I meant to say, ahwell.
The observed transparency does as more light enters through the rear the further you pull it from the other page. Pretty much exactly in line with how the digital equivalent would occur. An obvious digital recreation of a real world process, something that should be unpatentable.
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Asimov doesn't state the how, but the ability to alter moods and memory at will are being worked on right as we speak. Hell just look up some of the Japanese research that lets you control people like a remote control car and that's old news. Asimov also shows later on that machines can duplicate Mule's ability so it's not 'mystical' in nature, it really is just something we don't understand but are based on theories we actually posses today. So it's a case where we have theories that say its possible, we're finding ways to actually do it in reality, and he just endowed a character with those abilities without all the encumbrance of machinery... I'm willing to forgive that the way I forgive FTL. So I don't see his ability as something that makes the series fantastical even if the *way* he has those abilities is stretching probability to the breaking point.
Unlike The Force which can let a meatbag of a couple dozen kilos stop the forward momentum of starship the size of a city that we blatantly know is impossible unless our understanding of reality is totally skewed. Things like that coupled with all the other abilities The Force imbues their practitioners with is why its just another name for Magic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model
Yes. It's not wrong enough to be replaced by something else yet.
"Science that is unknown to us"? The same thing could be said for Dungeons & Dragons then. You've got people walking around who have the ability to nullify physics with a thought and with no energy requirement except happy thoughts. Fantasy.
Haven't read the Hive series or Childhood's End so can't comment on those.
Stranger has several elements to it that also qualify it for the fantasy genre, its more a hybrid imho but it definitely is in "Speculative Fiction" although the reason I think most put it in science fiction is because Heinlein wrote it. So if I was forced to put it in fantasy or scifi? I'd put it in both since the world the story was based in was future based with all the toys (flying cars) that world is supposed to have and it's pretty obvious who Michael really was at the last pages there which qualifies it for fantasy. Although Heinlein's portrayal of the mystic elements was as unaccepted/unknown true knowledge which is why I think most don't question it as scifi. Regardless of its genre, it's an awesome book. I always tell friends to read it and Starship Troopers right after.
Asimov's Foundation series though I'd firmly put into science fiction. Asimov never pulls magical answers out of his ass, it might be a fantastical extrapolation of known or theorized phenomena but its not just random bs. His work has the *potential* to be real no matter how small the chance is, although marketing and propaganda theory give it quite a bit of factual basis... both of which came about *after* the series was imagined.
"The Force" and all that it can do on the other hand is pure magic unless you consider religious beliefs factual basis for its potential existence. The ftl in the series isn't explained and it doesn't need to be in scifi imho, if we knew how ftl worked we'd have it so it's one of those points I forgive the genre. The Force on the other hand is something we can wrap our minds around and every real world concept it touches on is mystical which firmly puts it in the fantasy genre in my opinion, the aliens could be elves/dwarves/halflings and no one would question it in the fantasy genre. Funny looking aliens don't automatically make something scifi in my eyes.
Well one reason is that you just have to ssh in to your server once you're through the border and download the bootloader+extra bits you set aside to be urandomed and you're back in business. This takes a few minutes and there is no overt evidence of encryption vs if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda. So there is no difference between my scenario vs yours except the time of the data retrieval. If they can make you download the bootloader they can make you download everything on your vpn too.
The energy of putting it in the container against gravity could be all the energy needed so it dribbles out... assuming its not lighter than whatever it's mixed with.
Personal opinion is that Star Wars isn't any sub-genre of Science Fiction, it belongs under Fantasy as Space Fantasy. So it's still a part of the overall SF but putting it as part of Science Fiction just because space is involved ... you might as well include Dungeons & Dragons since it has dimensional travel.
Truecrypt + dd the bootloader into a file that you store off your person then urandom over it. Restore once you've entered sane laws again. Not sure if this is 100% but unless they pull out an expert or truecrypt identifies itself elsewhere in the drive it'll look like you're just someone who urandomed his whole drive as a precaution during travel.
Just went to Canada last week, passport required. Entering the USA without your passport is subject to a $100 fine if they feel like it but they'll let you in.
The computer animation is based on spectrograph data we've received. There is no claim it's 100% accurate, only that it is based on *real* data. So putting the painting, which is purely an artists imagination, and the computer reproduction of the atmosphere, based on real data, on the same level is unfair. Also to answer your question did I read your original comment? "No one knows what Pluto looks like, but somehow we know what another planet looks like from hundres/thousands of lightyears away? Makes no sense to me.". Yes, yes I did, and you're wrong. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00825 We don't have awesome photos of Pluto, but it's not some vague mystery that's totally unknown. 2015 will get us better photos. Also I'd guess that the methods we use to gather data about exoplanets isn't something we can use inside the solar system due to being blinded by Sol.
Dude, seriously step back a sec and think about it:
This: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/co/univers/les-exoplanetes/un-disque-cyan-dans-un-ciel-pourpre-coucher-de-soleil-sur-osiris is the official link
This: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/09/sunset-on-an-alien-world/ is an article targeting laymen. It's from Discover *Magazine*. It's science entertainment, not a peer reviewed journal. The 'planet' your so upset about is an artist paid to slap together something for people to look at the pretty colors.
Just out of curiosity, what does the 2nd amendment actually say in normal english? Specifically who/what is protected by the 2nd amendment?
Got a link? Or do you mean they disclosed them to Samsung under an NDA? I don't count that as disclosure.
I guess the only usefulness for the remotely operated light would be that *something* is out there. Although I guess how much of a threat it is could be defeated by having several UAV's actively scouting several places and blowing up random stuff to throw the enemy off. But still, lets you know that something is out there even if its just a UAV.
They want to be #1 in smartphones part of that rank comes with a bulls-eye on their back. They're king of the hill and even if I personally dislike apple there is nothing wrong with them being #1 in my opinion when its due to quality and services they provide to those who love them. But they've started to use cheap shots to stay there so haters are just getting even more reason to hate them and even neutrals are starting to catch on that maybe apple is deserving of that hate this whole time. Personally I'm not surprised apple went this route, it fits perfectly in line with how they treat technology, only Sony has a longer and more glorious past of being aholes
Most people, historically at least, on slashdot work in the IT industry. Market instability and absolutely no loyalty from our employers is what we *expect*. Our grandfathers, possibly fathers, are the last generation that believed the places they started working at when they were 18 would be the places they would retire from. I prefer this, perhaps when I have a family and kids and need stability I'll change my mind but my rational mind has no issue with it. If me being unemployed means that the government doesn't put its fingers deeper into my life its worth it.
Probably because everyone who does take issue with it avoids KDE all together.
There is little difference between you putting a snowplow (successfully) on your bike and someone spending their entire day on facebook. Neither really adds anything back to the pool of humanity... you just have a cooler story. So where does the guaranteed basic income come from? All the Type A people who happen to be commercially viable Type A's subsidize the rest of us who would be perfectly happy sitting in a library organizing books or cataloging random bs no one else cares about? Sort of unfair to them, cool for me, but sad for them... and if enough of them give up and shoot themselves in the head like their prone to do .... I'll starve ... and then you'll end up with the only truly guaranteed basic income ... whatever you can rip out of the cold dead hands of your neighbor.
... until then it requires the many to stand on the backs of the few to keep them alive... until they crush them to death.
Perhaps when we have nigh unlimited energy and can create food and shelter with zero hard cost this will be a viable idea
FIDM?
If only that were true.
Doesn't sound that different from LA traffic actually. Except that the car doing 100mph is weaving around traffic since everyone else is doing ~80mph. If we actually implemented a law that required people doing 65mph from being in the far left lane (our 'fast' lane/1st lane) then we'd be fine. Most of our freeways have 4+ lanes. Going into Los Angeles proper your looking at 8-10 lanes per side depending on how you want to count.
If the defense doesn't show up isn't he at least required to READ the evidence? Make sure the defendant isn't being sued for something impossible? If so then he should have noticed thedirty.com in the link used as evidence and questioned them why thedirty link is there when thedirt is everywhere else.
All my phones for the last 8 years have been purchased straight out. So bite me.
The notation comment was meant to imply that most of us don't need "theory" notated to explain which definition is being used. The person he replied to used it in its proper context, he was just too dense to get it. Perhaps my writing skill is too crappy to convey what I meant to say, ahwell.
The observed transparency does as more light enters through the rear the further you pull it from the other page. Pretty much exactly in line with how the digital equivalent would occur. An obvious digital recreation of a real world process, something that should be unpatentable.