Sony's [PS3] will be able to use seven controllers simultaneously and connect with two high-definition TV sets. But it's hard to share a single screen with seven people, and it's also difficult to imagine a room with two high-definition TV sets.
Yeah, Robbie...I remember when it was difficult for Bill Gates to imagine a computer program that required more than 640K of memory...
Well, I could have mentioned how amazing it is that anyone who didn't even know the difference between the possessive 'your' and the contraction 'you're' could possibly be coherent enough find the 'Submit' button, but I didn't want to make you feel any worse than you must already feel (especially since you've chosen to hide behind the AC facade).
Oh...crap...I just did...NOW look what you've made me do! Do you think I enjoy hitting you?
<sarcasm> Finally...past noon on the East Coast and still no Google Slashdot story....I was beginning to get worried. </sarcasm>
From TFA:
What is it? It's a lab of humans from all over the world (from China to The Netherlands, from Korea to Brasil) They are paid to check search results of Google every day. Most of the employers, called international agents by Google, were recruited through universities all over the world. The aim is to avoid spam, to get the right sites at the top of the listing and to test new features, not shown to the public yet.
OK...so the best search engine is people. Well, as long as you have the scratch to pay these international agents (which Google certainly has), it seems like a great idea. If this arrangement can cut some of the spam, hallelujah, although I'm wondering just who chooses which sites are the 'right sites' to ocupy the top of the list...
I'm not talking about simple satellites, but factories capable of generating and maintaining environments suitable for various exotic industrial processes that would be prohibitively expensive, difficult, and/or dangerous on the Earth's surface (if not outright impossible).
Here's just a few examples:
Exotic Alloys
Thin Film Production
Nanotube Production
And there are dozens more...as well as industrial processes that have yet to be conceived.
The question is, have we got the technology to take advantage of whats out there? Many people are waving the space flag and repeating the moon and mars like a mantra, but honestly, we need to really develop the supporting industries before we go building the rocketships to get us up there.
I agree totally...the real problem with Bush's "Vision for Space Exploration" is that it's not designed to further our knowledge or technology...it's designed to be sexy. Period.
Fortunately, we don't need to get to Mars, or even the Moon, in order to start realizing profit...the most profitable locale will be right above our heads, in Earth orbit. There are many industries that would benefit immensely from the wide variation of industrial environments possible in Earth orbit, and countles others that will not even be possible without such exotic environments.
I do not understand, for example, why anyone would consider another trip the moon or one to Mars an enterprise for profit.
The Moon as a profitable venture has always been a dubious suggestion...sure, it has raw materials, but does it have enough to make such a venture self-supporting?
As for Mars, apart from terraforming pipe dreams, I haven't heard anyone claim that that a Mars venture could possibly be in the black.
Fortunately, we don't need to go to either to realize a profitble space venture...all we need is orbit. The possibilities for industry in orbit are vast, and unlike Mars, it's within easy reach. In fact, the Moon operation (if and when that happens) will probably do little more than refine raw materials for use in orbit.
The petition is a demand that Tom be removed from office, period. In fact, the word 'allegations' (of which you neo-cons seem to be inordinately fond) is only used once in the entire petition, to refer to only one reason cited for the demand for removal. Also, there's no mention at all of the word 'investigated'. Nice revisionism, though.
Here's the text of the petition itself, just to keep you honest.
To: U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay [R-Texas] has been a disgrace to the United States and the world since he entered Congress in 1984. His latest partisan power grab is to lead the effort to gain more Republican seats in Congress by redistricting Texas - eight years before the state is scheduled to do so again. Texas has been forced to spend millions this year just to satisfy DeLay's lust for more power, while healthcare, education and other needs go unmet. DeLay, a former bug exterminator, is known for extortion, illegal fundraising and blackmail. DeLay has obstructed justice for low-paid sweatshop workers on the island of Saipan by taking large campaign contributions from Saipan's chief lobbyist and blocking any Congressional investigation of the appalling conditions there. DeLay has obstructed justice by lying to the FBI when he charged that the reporter who broke the Henry Hyde adultery story in the 1990s had been working with the White House to expose Hyde. DeLay led the campaign in the House to impeach Bill Clinton, while rumors of extramarital affairs of his own continue to circulate. DeLay's far-right extreme agenda includes to repeal environmental protection laws by dismantling the EPA and gutting the Clean Air Act, allow big polluting companies to continue to pollute our air, water and other resources, teach creationism in public schools, abolish separation of church and state, and outlaw abortion in all cases. DeLay also opposes campaign finance reform and has taken more money from tobacco interests than any other Texas legislator. During a deposition for a lawsuit filed by a former business partner in the pest company in 1994, DeLay lied that he had not been an officer of the company for two or three years. On congressional financial disclosure forms filed in 1995, he listed himself as chairman of the company's board of directors. Allegations included that DeLay illegally used company money to pay political campaign debts. The lawsuit was ultimately settled with an undisclosed amount paid to the business partner. In 1997, DeLay actually shoved Rep. David Obey [D-Wisconsin] and called him a "chickenshit" on the House floor. That same year, DeLay tried to impeach federal judges he didn't like. In 1998, he said that people with "foreign-sounding names" probably aren't Americans. Finally, a story goes that DeLay lit up a stogie in a restaurant, and a waiter told him it was a government building, where smoking was not permitted. DeLay reportedly retorted, "I am the government." We need to send a message to DeLay that he is NOT the government and he does NOT represent most Americans as a leader of Congress. We need to remove DeLay from office, without delay.
"We will provide the funding necessary to get us where we want to go," the House majority leader said.
Awfully nice of you to provide the funding for our space initiative, Tom...are you sure you and the other members of Congress can afford it?
Oh, wait...he's talking about our money...not his...damn.
Seriously, though, after reading through TFA, and also reading some related articles on President Bush's "Vision for Space Exploration", one finds that below the glitz and the sexiness, there's just not much content. Specifically, there's very little mention of turning space exploration into a paying venture, which will be very necessary as soon as the glamour wears off, and the taxpayers get tired of funding such a pricey program.
There's ridiculous amounts of money to be made in space...we just need to get up there...and stay up there this time.
That's too bad...I've always liked the idea of my ancestors storming across the land, exterminating entire species of giant animals with spears and rocks.
Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.T: Quote, Profile, Research) aims to start selling robots that can help look after elderly people or serve tea to guests by 2010, the Asahi daily reported on Tuesday.
Just to illustrate, here's the summary of this story, translated to German and back to English using Google's current version:
Google gave a Glimpse of its machine Uebersetzungsystems the following production at the factory route of the A May 19 to journalists. Google. "Google Blogoscoped" offers an excellent overview of the representation. The system was trained with the nation documents as korpus. This korpus is something 20 billion word value of contents. It uses the existing target language translations (takes place via human translators at the U.N.) Samples find, which use it then to establish guidelines for translating between those languages. Apparent it was successful, where the present version had failed, if it translated certain cliches. If everyone of forming a serious were capable, of the M.Ue., those would go to have having to Google.
Actually, I'm going to be doing this in just a couple of hours...my fiancee and I will be undertaking the arduous journey up to my parents' cabin in the North (eight miles south of the Mackinac Bridge).
Yup, I'll be completely cut off from all my life-sustaining tech...
Except for my Sidekick, that is...that's all.
...and my digital camera...you know...to take pictures of Nature and all...and that's it.
...and my work phone...gotta have my work phone in case a server crashes or something...and that's it.
...and my work laptop...in case I have to VPN in to work...and that's ALL.
...and my personal laptop...after all, they're both in the same case...and nothing ELSE.
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Neither...I was being ironic...sorry that escaped you.
Next time I'll keep you in mind and use my <irony> tag.
Quote from Robbie Bach in TFA:
Yeah, Robbie...I remember when it was difficult for Bill Gates to imagine a computer program that required more than 640K of memory...
Oops...
Well, I could have mentioned how amazing it is that anyone who didn't even know the difference between the possessive 'your' and the contraction 'you're' could possibly be coherent enough find the 'Submit' button, but I didn't want to make you feel any worse than you must already feel (especially since you've chosen to hide behind the AC facade).
Oh...crap...I just did...NOW look what you've made me do! Do you think I enjoy hitting you?
<sarcasm>
Finally...past noon on the East Coast and still no Google Slashdot story....I was beginning to get worried.
</sarcasm>
From TFA:
OK...so the best search engine is people. Well, as long as you have the scratch to pay these international agents (which Google certainly has), it seems like a great idea. If this arrangement can cut some of the spam, hallelujah, although I'm wondering just who chooses which sites are the 'right sites' to ocupy the top of the list...
Anyone know where I can put in an app?
Your nick is Tripmaster Monkey and your claiming that THIS is the stupidest thing you've seen all day?
It was...until I saw your post.
This is easily the dumbest thing I've seen all day.
In fact, there is only one reason why I like it....but it's a big reason.
The RIAA is bound to hate it, and drive themelves into seizures trying to regulate/kill it.
And anything that drives the RIAA crazy and wastes their time is aces in my book.
^_%
Indeed...just tack it onto the Iraq spending bill...we can even come up with a good reason it should be included in the bill:
Nothing to it.
^_^
I'm not talking about simple satellites, but factories capable of generating and maintaining environments suitable for various exotic industrial processes that would be prohibitively expensive, difficult, and/or dangerous on the Earth's surface (if not outright impossible).
Here's just a few examples:
And there are dozens more...as well as industrial processes that have yet to be conceived.
The question is, have we got the technology to take advantage of whats out there? Many people are waving the space flag and repeating the moon and mars like a mantra, but honestly, we need to really develop the supporting industries before we go building the rocketships to get us up there.
I agree totally...the real problem with Bush's "Vision for Space Exploration" is that it's not designed to further our knowledge or technology...it's designed to be sexy. Period.
Fortunately, we don't need to get to Mars, or even the Moon, in order to start realizing profit...the most profitable locale will be right above our heads, in Earth orbit. There are many industries that would benefit immensely from the wide variation of industrial environments possible in Earth orbit, and countles others that will not even be possible without such exotic environments.
I do not understand, for example, why anyone would consider another trip the moon or one to Mars an enterprise for profit.
The Moon as a profitable venture has always been a dubious suggestion...sure, it has raw materials, but does it have enough to make such a venture self-supporting?
As for Mars, apart from terraforming pipe dreams, I haven't heard anyone claim that that a Mars venture could possibly be in the black.
Fortunately, we don't need to go to either to realize a profitble space venture...all we need is orbit. The possibilities for industry in orbit are vast, and unlike Mars, it's within easy reach. In fact, the Moon operation (if and when that happens) will probably do little more than refine raw materials for use in orbit.
The petition is a demand that Tom be removed from office, period. In fact, the word 'allegations' (of which you neo-cons seem to be inordinately fond) is only used once in the entire petition, to refer to only one reason cited for the demand for removal. Also, there's no mention at all of the word 'investigated'. Nice revisionism, though.
Here's the text of the petition itself, just to keep you honest.
Here you go.
Just remember...you asked for it.
From TFA:
Awfully nice of you to provide the funding for our space initiative, Tom...are you sure you and the other members of Congress can afford it?
Oh, wait...he's talking about our money...not his...damn.
Seriously, though, after reading through TFA, and also reading some related articles on President Bush's "Vision for Space Exploration", one finds that below the glitz and the sexiness, there's just not much content. Specifically, there's very little mention of turning space exploration into a paying venture, which will be very necessary as soon as the glamour wears off, and the taxpayers get tired of funding such a pricey program.
There's ridiculous amounts of money to be made in space...we just need to get up there...and stay up there this time.
I would just like to take this moment to announce that I have succesfully patented video game violence.
Everybody owes me money.
^_^
Yet the Americans continue to deny global warming.
Not all of us, dude...just our elected officials.
No it's not.
Yes, it IS.
"If you could press a button, and kill all humans on the planet (painlessly), would you?"
No, for two reasons:
^_^
That's too bad...I've always liked the idea of my ancestors storming across the land, exterminating entire species of giant animals with spears and rocks.
Um...didn't this happen like a year ago?
From TFA:
Reading this, I can't help but think of this excerpt from The Terribe Secret of Space:
^_^
That's why I said 'just to illustrate'.
Just to illustrate, here's the summary of this story, translated to German and back to English using Google's current version:
^_^
That's one of the main reasons I'm going...among other things, I 've been getting complaints about the system running slow...read: spyware.
^_^
Yup, I'll be completely cut off from all my life-sustaining tech...
Except for my Sidekick, that is...that's all.
...and my digital camera...you know...to take pictures of Nature and all...and that's it.
...and my work phone...gotta have my work phone in case a server crashes or something...and that's it.
...and my work laptop...in case I have to VPN in to work...and that's ALL.
...and my personal laptop...after all, they're both in the same case...and nothing ELSE.
...except for my USB thumb drives...
...and my USB hub...
...and my wireless hub...
...and my external HDD...
...and my external DVD-RW...
*sigh*