This sounds like the perfect vehicle for the cloak-and-dagger set to eliminate high-value targets while they are most vulnerable.
That frightens me quite a bit.
There was that article a little bit ago about life possibly arising first on Mars and then coming to Earth via Space Rock. If those are Supervolcanoes, and one erupted around the same time that life began here, you'd have a viable vector for life moving between planets. Still some very big "If"s in there, though.
Hi everyone!
I recently medically retired from the Army. I was part of the Chemical Corps., and served in a Chemical Company stationed in Germany. As part of the Recon team for the company, we received one of only two robots retrofitted to be used as Remote On-Scene threat evaluators. I was one of perhaps four people taught how to operate the refitted iRobot Packbot. The iRobot guys came out and gave us a class, I got a fancy ballcap, everyone was happy.
We named it the first week.
Was there an emotional attachment to this machine? You bet. Let me clarify as to why. This machine is expensive. As an enlisted guy, if it breaks, and I'm operating, I'm paying for it. So I was very protective of it. Would I go after it sand recover it in the event that something horrible happened? Yes, given the chance, I'd have donned my full Tyvek Moonsuit and gone after it, mostly because it would have been my fault as the operator, but also out of curiosity and a sense of strange camaraderie. Soldiers anthropomorphize things constantly. 80% of the folks I know had names for their weapons. Don't even get me started on sailors. I was Navy before I was Army. If anything, they're worse.
So, I can understand the concern. I just felt maybe this would clarify a bit.
Thanks!
OK, so...can ground-state atoms can be arranged in a regular, repeating fashion and thus you have what this article is attempting to explain.
What happens if you arrange atoms in such a way that a chain reaction would normally occur, but in a way which preserved the repeating pattern with ground state atoms?
Would the process take place? If so, would it continuously take place? If a process did occur, could you harness whatever byproduct of that reaction is?
Or how about this: Some crystals are piezoelectric. Could the same type of effect be applied to a crystalline structure along a time axis?
Well, I don't know much about the future, but I do work as a Dell OnCall Helpdesk Tech. As of right now, we support Firefox on any system. The way things look, our Scope of Support could change at the drop of a hat and we'll all have to learn Non-Windows OS's.
I wonder if this is a stroke of marketing genius to target the tech-friendly nerd culture or simply the result of a very misguided exectutive?
I shudder to think about the possible commercials...
Oh, I don't know about decline...let's look at it like this:
Gaming was once considered "geeky", now it's almost the best way for random strangers to meet and unite behind a common goal, i.e. to win.
1up.com has an extensive blogging network, and I daresay most of it is, or WAS geeky in nature. It all depends on how you use the word. Not all geeks are the Dilbert type. Some are more extroverted, and though their interests are deep in the geek world, they can express themselves with the clarity and excitement of a Dan Brown or Clive Cussler.
So I would imagine this "decline" is true...but only for a given value of true.
Y'know...I'm not the world's most intelligent guy, but it occurs to me that a plastic ship would be...intersting to pilot through an atmospheric re-entry.
I for one would not like to be part of the crew of the USS Icarus as it found out the hard way why we don't make ships from plastic!
Does this mean no more Red Dwarf? No more Fawlty Towers? No more (gasp!) Monty Python??? I mean...if it hadn't have been for those staples of British culture, my 2 year stay in London with the Navy would have been horrible. I think that the BBC dumping their archives is wrong, not only from a cultural viewpoint, but also a historical one. Think of all the great speeches and war-time documentaries. They should at least be put in a museum somewhere. I'm sure they can find room in the British Museum or somewhere.
My logic goes a little like this: American audiences, since The Simpsons made it big, are now used to the idea of animated shows in Prime Time. Trouble is, they've all been comedies. I wonder if the studios are just wary about an animated drama series? I bet if you got say, the folks who did that little anime sequence in Kill Bill (But tamed down, obviously) to do an hour-long series...that's a blank check.
Let's postulate a script written by the Anime people over across the Pacific that is specifically made to cater to an American audience? Something like...oh I don't know..."24" done in a realistic, gritty style....but anime. Something thought provoking, not utterly fantastic. Hell, I bet you could do a passable "X-Files" anime series, if you kept it believable. There's a market, it just takes someone willing to do it.
There actually does seem to be an intrest out here for Anime done in an American style. If someone across the pond could come up with something that we really GET....they would have more money than they would know what to do with. Maybe hour long Anime series in the vein of CSI? THAT would rock.
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First, a little background. I was born in '82. So I grew up with anime flavored cartoons like Thundercats and Transformers. I remember my friends later on telling me how great ampire Hunter D and Akira and Ninja Scroll were. I think most of the adults from my generation were not ready to accept a feature-leangth cartoon that wasn't geared towards children. I'll call them the Disney generation. My parents grew up with Winnie-the-Pooh and the Jungle Book and Sleeping Beauty. I had Voltron.
My friends and I were more of the opinion that if it ROCKED, it didn't really matter what it was. Then CGI got really big when TRON came out, Nintendo took over our lives, and everything had that touch of anime. It just became a part of our culture. The Playstaion consoles have solidified this with all those that were born after me. Ask any 10 year old about Pokemon or Yu-Ji-Oh or MegaMan and he'll talk to you for DAYS.
So it doesn't come as much of a surprise to me that Anime is coming over here to stay. Look at Princess Mononoke....it was proven to Hollywood that it can work with the right translation and voice cast. I expect to see much more in the future....especially after Final Fantasy: Advent Children hits in September. ....'Course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
I look at this story, and the first thing that comes to mind is: VCR's.
I seem to remember that there was a similar uproar about VCR's being able to record way back when. Isn't this the same thing?
Of course, we all remember when the government recalled all the VCR's and watched everyone like a hawk to make sure you didn't have a pirated episode of Doogie Howser or Night Court in your home.
Face it, Hollywood...you may have the money to buy some Federal aid, but ANYTHING put out on the Net or on the Air becomes public domain, one way or another......Besides, how else is little Hadji going to go to college????
Hello Human. This Unit Is Designated Clippy, HAPPY MICROSOFT ASSISTANT. You Require Help. This Unit Will Nullify Your Problem In An UPLIFTING, MEANINGFUL WAY. Thank You For Using Microsoft. Don't Forget To Upgrade To Service Pack 3.>
It's only a matter of time before MicrSoft seceeds from the Union, forming a technocracy that will rule the internet and unleash Clippy v2.0, the Terminator edition.
Unstoppable, blob-like, indefatigable, only Mr. Peabody and the Way Back machine can stop it now.
May the Gods have mercy on our souls.
Does that mean Google reserves the right to put a HUGE Coca-Cola logo in the Sahara? Rename Baghdad "Alladin's Magical Villiage"? New York becomes Googleopolis??
Danger, Will Robinson!!
Kids!
You too can now plot to take over the world using the resources of your home computer! Just call up your Google Map of the country(ies) you wish to subjugate, order your evil minions from EBay or the third-world country of your choice, release the latest Windows Service Pack, and watch as you become Supreme Kahuna!!*
*Minion Loyalty Not Included
Well, I can't say I'm that surprised at the price tag, as all new technology is rather pricey. Will that stop all the random single people from buying one immediately? Not at all.
In fact, I'm pretty sure we'll see those self same buyers out on street corners with signs saying "Will max out materia for food".
Pop-up security updates, click here to patch XP, "Win an X-Box 360 if you can whack Ballmer" Microsoft ads, Pop-up spam on competitors web sites.
It is the beginning of the Microsoft Dirty War.
Allow me to be the first to propose extreme extraterrestrial sports. Hydrocarbon skiing, anyone? Synchronized searching for life forms? I don't know, but I'm sure MTV would cover it.
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Remember, you can't spell "Disaster" or "Disappointment" without DISA.
How about shooting some tethers at it and deploying a counter-weight (rocket-powered?) to the object to swing it out of orbit? Make it into a Bola?
This sounds like the perfect vehicle for the cloak-and-dagger set to eliminate high-value targets while they are most vulnerable. That frightens me quite a bit.
There was that article a little bit ago about life possibly arising first on Mars and then coming to Earth via Space Rock. If those are Supervolcanoes, and one erupted around the same time that life began here, you'd have a viable vector for life moving between planets. Still some very big "If"s in there, though.
Hi everyone! I recently medically retired from the Army. I was part of the Chemical Corps., and served in a Chemical Company stationed in Germany. As part of the Recon team for the company, we received one of only two robots retrofitted to be used as Remote On-Scene threat evaluators. I was one of perhaps four people taught how to operate the refitted iRobot Packbot. The iRobot guys came out and gave us a class, I got a fancy ballcap, everyone was happy. We named it the first week. Was there an emotional attachment to this machine? You bet. Let me clarify as to why. This machine is expensive. As an enlisted guy, if it breaks, and I'm operating, I'm paying for it. So I was very protective of it. Would I go after it sand recover it in the event that something horrible happened? Yes, given the chance, I'd have donned my full Tyvek Moonsuit and gone after it, mostly because it would have been my fault as the operator, but also out of curiosity and a sense of strange camaraderie. Soldiers anthropomorphize things constantly. 80% of the folks I know had names for their weapons. Don't even get me started on sailors. I was Navy before I was Army. If anything, they're worse. So, I can understand the concern. I just felt maybe this would clarify a bit. Thanks!
OK, so...can ground-state atoms can be arranged in a regular, repeating fashion and thus you have what this article is attempting to explain. What happens if you arrange atoms in such a way that a chain reaction would normally occur, but in a way which preserved the repeating pattern with ground state atoms? Would the process take place? If so, would it continuously take place? If a process did occur, could you harness whatever byproduct of that reaction is? Or how about this: Some crystals are piezoelectric. Could the same type of effect be applied to a crystalline structure along a time axis?
Well, I don't know much about the future, but I do work as a Dell OnCall Helpdesk Tech. As of right now, we support Firefox on any system. The way things look, our Scope of Support could change at the drop of a hat and we'll all have to learn Non-Windows OS's.
I wonder if this is a stroke of marketing genius to target the tech-friendly nerd culture or simply the result of a very misguided exectutive? I shudder to think about the possible commercials...
Oh, I don't know about decline...let's look at it like this: Gaming was once considered "geeky", now it's almost the best way for random strangers to meet and unite behind a common goal, i.e. to win. 1up.com has an extensive blogging network, and I daresay most of it is, or WAS geeky in nature. It all depends on how you use the word. Not all geeks are the Dilbert type. Some are more extroverted, and though their interests are deep in the geek world, they can express themselves with the clarity and excitement of a Dan Brown or Clive Cussler. So I would imagine this "decline" is true...but only for a given value of true.
Y'know...I'm not the world's most intelligent guy, but it occurs to me that a plastic ship would be...intersting to pilot through an atmospheric re-entry. I for one would not like to be part of the crew of the USS Icarus as it found out the hard way why we don't make ships from plastic!
Oh... Well, in that case..it looks like I'm the smeghead.
Does this mean no more Red Dwarf? No more Fawlty Towers? No more (gasp!) Monty Python??? I mean...if it hadn't have been for those staples of British culture, my 2 year stay in London with the Navy would have been horrible. I think that the BBC dumping their archives is wrong, not only from a cultural viewpoint, but also a historical one. Think of all the great speeches and war-time documentaries. They should at least be put in a museum somewhere. I'm sure they can find room in the British Museum or somewhere.
My logic goes a little like this: American audiences, since The Simpsons made it big, are now used to the idea of animated shows in Prime Time. Trouble is, they've all been comedies. I wonder if the studios are just wary about an animated drama series? I bet if you got say, the folks who did that little anime sequence in Kill Bill (But tamed down, obviously) to do an hour-long series...that's a blank check.
Let's postulate a script written by the Anime people over across the Pacific that is specifically made to cater to an American audience? Something like...oh I don't know..."24" done in a realistic, gritty style....but anime. Something thought provoking, not utterly fantastic. Hell, I bet you could do a passable "X-Files" anime series, if you kept it believable. There's a market, it just takes someone willing to do it.
There actually does seem to be an intrest out here for Anime done in an American style. If someone across the pond could come up with something that we really GET....they would have more money than they would know what to do with. Maybe hour long Anime series in the vein of CSI? THAT would rock.
First, a little background. I was born in '82. So I grew up with anime flavored cartoons like Thundercats and Transformers. I remember my friends later on telling me how great ampire Hunter D and Akira and Ninja Scroll were. I think most of the adults from my generation were not ready to accept a feature-leangth cartoon that wasn't geared towards children. I'll call them the Disney generation. My parents grew up with Winnie-the-Pooh and the Jungle Book and Sleeping Beauty. I had Voltron.
....'Course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
My friends and I were more of the opinion that if it ROCKED, it didn't really matter what it was. Then CGI got really big when TRON came out, Nintendo took over our lives, and everything had that touch of anime. It just became a part of our culture. The Playstaion consoles have solidified this with all those that were born after me. Ask any 10 year old about Pokemon or Yu-Ji-Oh or MegaMan and he'll talk to you for DAYS.
So it doesn't come as much of a surprise to me that Anime is coming over here to stay. Look at Princess Mononoke....it was proven to Hollywood that it can work with the right translation and voice cast. I expect to see much more in the future....especially after Final Fantasy: Advent Children hits in September.
I look at this story, and the first thing that comes to mind is: VCR's. I seem to remember that there was a similar uproar about VCR's being able to record way back when. Isn't this the same thing? Of course, we all remember when the government recalled all the VCR's and watched everyone like a hawk to make sure you didn't have a pirated episode of Doogie Howser or Night Court in your home. Face it, Hollywood...you may have the money to buy some Federal aid, but ANYTHING put out on the Net or on the Air becomes public domain, one way or another......Besides, how else is little Hadji going to go to college????
Hello Human. This Unit Is Designated Clippy, HAPPY MICROSOFT ASSISTANT. You Require Help. This Unit Will Nullify Your Problem In An UPLIFTING, MEANINGFUL WAY. Thank You For Using Microsoft. Don't Forget To Upgrade To Service Pack 3.>
It's only a matter of time before MicrSoft seceeds from the Union, forming a technocracy that will rule the internet and unleash Clippy v2.0, the Terminator edition. Unstoppable, blob-like, indefatigable, only Mr. Peabody and the Way Back machine can stop it now. May the Gods have mercy on our souls.
Does that mean Google reserves the right to put a HUGE Coca-Cola logo in the Sahara? Rename Baghdad "Alladin's Magical Villiage"? New York becomes Googleopolis?? Danger, Will Robinson!!
Kids! You too can now plot to take over the world using the resources of your home computer! Just call up your Google Map of the country(ies) you wish to subjugate, order your evil minions from EBay or the third-world country of your choice, release the latest Windows Service Pack, and watch as you become Supreme Kahuna!!* *Minion Loyalty Not Included
Well, I can't say I'm that surprised at the price tag, as all new technology is rather pricey. Will that stop all the random single people from buying one immediately? Not at all. In fact, I'm pretty sure we'll see those self same buyers out on street corners with signs saying "Will max out materia for food".
Pop-up security updates, click here to patch XP, "Win an X-Box 360 if you can whack Ballmer" Microsoft ads, Pop-up spam on competitors web sites. It is the beginning of the Microsoft Dirty War.
Slashdot is going to have an article about that WOPR computer from WarGames. "Would you like to play a game?"
Allow me to be the first to propose extreme extraterrestrial sports. Hydrocarbon skiing, anyone? Synchronized searching for life forms? I don't know, but I'm sure MTV would cover it.