This is one of the reasons I much prefer near-term science fiction like Andy Weir's "The Martian."
I remember reading The Foundation Trilogy as a kid and thinking it was preposterous reading a story set thousands of years in the future, as we'd have no idea how humanity would look at behave.
What kind of Internet connection does Sony Pictures have? To ex-filtrate 100 TB of data is going to take a while, no matter how you cut it. My guess is that number is significantly inflated.
Who says this was done over the internet?
Send in a North Korean agent posing as a janitor to jack into the network from the inside. Plug in a device, let it download, then come get it the next night.
I've been 98% cashless since the early 90s and never have more than a few dollars on me at any given time
If you live somewhere where a natural disaster is a possibility (earthquake / hurricane / tornado) it's prudent to have a stash of small denomination cash that you have easy access to (100 five-dollar bills, for example). Generally when disaster strikes things revert to a cash (or barter) economy.
The advantage is their family back home costs 1/10th as much as yours to provide for.
Same thing happens in the USA, though. It's certainly not 1/10th, but the cost of living in Sioux City is considerably lower than it is in San Francisco.
Waited for a friend to have an interview in my car when I was in highschool, listened to the radio for about 45 minutes.
Wow. That's bizarre. Back in the 80s you could listen to a double-feature at the drive-in on your radio then easily start up your car and drive away. 4+ hours of the radio had little to no impact on the battery.
Back in the day, when I had time for such things, for me 'hackability' meant lots of additional useful instrumentation. For example, in my 1988 Nissan Hardbody Pickup I had additional gauges for things like -
I remain amazed by the number of chances the show took in terms of its approaches to faith (or the questioning there of), its handling of grief and loss, and illustrating the effects of war and adversity on not only adults - but children (notably Noah Hathaway's Boxey). The show impressively nailed its thematics of religion vs pragmatism, military vs government, the haves vs the have nots, father vs son, and suggested a far bigger and bolder universe than its first season - and its considerably less visionary follow-up GALACTICA 1980 - had a chance to fully explore.
Thus, I strongly assert that - despite its many shortcomings and frustrating elements - the 'classic' BATTLESTAR GALACTICA never got its due. It never found the innate corporate support of fan traction that so dramatically characterizes STAR TREK, and was roundly overshadowed by Ron Moore's 2004 reinvention of the concept. Yet, somehow, the original series abides.
All hit stage 5 of mass acceptance at work before hitting mass acceptance.
I have to call you out on 'email' and 'internet,' at least outside of tech companies.
I started in the working world in 1988, so I watched the arrival of email and internet. Long after everyone had it at home, PCs at work didn't have email / net access. "Mabel in the back" might have had a US Robotics modem so she could dial-up "the email" but that was it. In many businesses PCs weren't networked, or if they were it was via NetBEUI or some other inappropriate protocol.
No - the original Battlestar Galactica was real crap. Cheesy as all heck
I think you're really looking at the show unfairly. When it came on the air (over 36 years ago) there was nothing else like it on television. Nothing. Sure it was riding the Star Wars wave, and it recycled FX shots, but at the time it was groundbreaking. Think about what else was on then - The Incredible Hulk, Vegas, Dallas.
Anyway the sum of it is that it is hard to get a good measurement on
Obviously I was making a tongue-in-cheek nonsense suggestion. America could have a school shooting every week and would still do nothing about their beloved wonderful child-killing guns. They would have nothing left to use to compensate for their small penises.
Oh yeah, and it's not 'hard to get a good measurement on.' The countries that have gun bans have nearly zero incidents of terrified little kids being shot dead at their desks.
Tell you what. Let's outlaw all guns like Australia and the UK, and see what the the school-mass-murder rate is in the USA a decade later.
If it hasn't dropped, and there remains the same number of tragic killings (only this time via school bus-steering-wheel takeovers) then we can revisit the gun decision.
Democrats are going to keep demanding that the government force low-skilled workers out of work... sorry, increase the minimum wage.
Now that it's been studied, it turns out this isn't the case. Raising the minimum wage doesn't force people out of work, and, in some cases, causes local economies to surge. Seattle is the most recent example.
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This is one of the reasons I much prefer near-term science fiction like Andy Weir's "The Martian."
I remember reading The Foundation Trilogy as a kid and thinking it was preposterous reading a story set thousands of years in the future, as we'd have no idea how humanity would look at behave.
You HAVE to have wings for space!
Dude, they're not wings, they're "S-Foils." Get with the program.
What kind of Internet connection does Sony Pictures have? To ex-filtrate 100 TB of data is going to take a while, no matter how you cut it. My guess is that number is significantly inflated.
Who says this was done over the internet?
Send in a North Korean agent posing as a janitor to jack into the network from the inside. Plug in a device, let it download, then come get it the next night.
Hey Anonymous Coward, who said I was looking for sympathy? I was explaining why I don't contribute to Open Source.
The Chromebooks aren't going to last more than a few months
I work for a company that sells technology into K12. We have many education customers that are 2+ years into their Chromebook deployments.
Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source?
Time.
Two kids, aged 4 and 6. Golden Retriever. House with a 'to do' list as long as my arm.
I've been 98% cashless since the early 90s and never have more than a few dollars on me at any given time
If you live somewhere where a natural disaster is a possibility (earthquake / hurricane / tornado) it's prudent to have a stash of small denomination cash that you have easy access to (100 five-dollar bills, for example). Generally when disaster strikes things revert to a cash (or barter) economy.
Is it just me, or have we now reached the point where people who drive drunk just aren't affected by 'external influences?'
Threat of a large fine doesn't stop them, nor does threat of jail, threat of loss of driving privileges or threat of loss of their vehicle.
Threat that they might injure or kill others, themselves or passengers doesn't influence their behaviour either.
So sure, embarrass them with a tweet, but will the risk of embarrassment really decrease drunks on the road? I think not...
What exactly makes this a "space" telescope?
Presumably the fact that it is peering into space and not your neighbour's bedroom window or ships on the horizon.
The advantage is their family back home costs 1/10th as much as yours to provide for.
Same thing happens in the USA, though. It's certainly not 1/10th, but the cost of living in Sioux City is considerably lower than it is in San Francisco.
Not some half-a$$ed go cart that can't keep up in traffic.
I didn't realize the hundreds of Prius taxis that are zooming all over my city can't keep up in traffic. You learn something new every day.
I'll also have to let my friend who just drove his Prius cross-country that it couldn't keep up.
Waited for a friend to have an interview in my car when I was in highschool, listened to the radio for about 45 minutes.
Wow. That's bizarre. Back in the 80s you could listen to a double-feature at the drive-in on your radio then easily start up your car and drive away. 4+ hours of the radio had little to no impact on the battery.
Back in the day, when I had time for such things, for me 'hackability' meant lots of additional useful instrumentation. For example, in my 1988 Nissan Hardbody Pickup I had additional gauges for things like -
- Oil pressure
- Rich / lean fuel mixture (via O2 sensor)
- Vacuum
- Coolant temperature
- Oil temperature
- Volts
- Amps
- Fuel pressure
If I wanted to wind down the windows I just turned the conveniently located crank-handle.
In Andy Weir's book "The Martian" our hero is stranded on Mars. He uses his RTG as a heat source when he goes for a long drive in one of his rovers.
Battlestar Galactica was far from groundbreaking.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node...
I remain amazed by the number of chances the show took in terms of its approaches to faith (or the questioning there of), its handling of grief and loss, and illustrating the effects of war and adversity on not only adults - but children (notably Noah Hathaway's Boxey). The show impressively nailed its thematics of religion vs pragmatism, military vs government, the haves vs the have nots, father vs son, and suggested a far bigger and bolder universe than its first season - and its considerably less visionary follow-up GALACTICA 1980 - had a chance to fully explore.
Thus, I strongly assert that - despite its many shortcomings and frustrating elements - the 'classic' BATTLESTAR GALACTICA never got its due. It never found the innate corporate support of fan traction that so dramatically characterizes STAR TREK, and was roundly overshadowed by Ron Moore's 2004 reinvention of the concept. Yet, somehow, the original series abides.
All hit stage 5 of mass acceptance at work before hitting mass acceptance.
I have to call you out on 'email' and 'internet,' at least outside of tech companies.
I started in the working world in 1988, so I watched the arrival of email and internet. Long after everyone had it at home, PCs at work didn't have email / net access. "Mabel in the back" might have had a US Robotics modem so she could dial-up "the email" but that was it. In many businesses PCs weren't networked, or if they were it was via NetBEUI or some other inappropriate protocol.
No - the original Battlestar Galactica was real crap. Cheesy as all heck
I think you're really looking at the show unfairly. When it came on the air (over 36 years ago) there was nothing else like it on television. Nothing. Sure it was riding the Star Wars wave, and it recycled FX shots, but at the time it was groundbreaking. Think about what else was on then - The Incredible Hulk, Vegas, Dallas.
I still remember the first time the trailer aired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Anyway the sum of it is that it is hard to get a good measurement on
Obviously I was making a tongue-in-cheek nonsense suggestion. America could have a school shooting every week and would still do nothing about their beloved wonderful child-killing guns. They would have nothing left to use to compensate for their small penises.
Oh yeah, and it's not 'hard to get a good measurement on.' The countries that have gun bans have nearly zero incidents of terrified little kids being shot dead at their desks.
Good point.
Tell you what. Let's outlaw all guns like Australia and the UK, and see what the the school-mass-murder rate is in the USA a decade later.
If it hasn't dropped, and there remains the same number of tragic killings (only this time via school bus-steering-wheel takeovers) then we can revisit the gun decision.
Make sense?
So tell me the difference again?
Obviously there are a lost of factors contributing to students 'snapping.'
However, the fact remains that if a 15-year-old doesn't have access to guns then he can't shoot anyone.
Namely, what causes students to snap and to do that in the first place.
Hormone-addled teens 'snap' all the time, all over the world.
The difference is that the USA they have ready access to guns. In the rest of world, not so much.
So China promises to stop increasing by 2030, and the US promises to cut ~26% by 2025.
Yes, and by 2030 the USA will still emit more carbon per person than China.
(Today the USA emits about 14 tons per person, compared to China's 7 tons.)
So yeah, you're right, that is some powerful negotiation right there as China is making a much bigger sacrifice...
This.
Let the market decide. If DRM angers you, don't buy games from companies that use DRM.
Democrats are going to keep demanding that the government force low-skilled workers out of work... sorry, increase the minimum wage.
Now that it's been studied, it turns out this isn't the case. Raising the minimum wage doesn't force people out of work, and, in some cases, causes local economies to surge. Seattle is the most recent example.
http://seattletimes.com/html/l...