I read the parent post...and I have to say, it was one of the most boring posts of all time. I'm sure when it came out it was , ooo look at the commentary and opinion..but seriously..this post dragged and dragged..and my friends and I had this theme of reading "classic posts". The week previous we had read the first beowulf cliche joke..this has hands down got to be one of the worst posts of all time..it is long, it is pointless and it is very very boring does anyone even care about the post? i doubt it
I don't think they *could* go for a look-a-like. While Shatner doesn't look unusual or strange by any standard, he certainly looks unique. As does Nimoy. I've seen a lot of human beings and just nobody looks like these guys. Seeing as how they both have Ukranian Jewish heritage, maybe you'd have to look toward Mother Russia to find some doubles...
It's amazing what they did on a (relatively) shoestring TV show budget, using a freakin' CAR as the launch vehicle. Achieved a perfect launch, and only failed when the booster failed to separate. I would really have liked to see how the Robin would have glided (probably not very well).
If you want to see something in a similar vein to this launch that is really impressive, check out Top Gear's launch of a shuttle built from a Reliant Robin compact car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN3JjUUdjWU
"That's because life IS a fundamental, real thing -- not merely a set of characteristics."
You know, usually, when you make a statement like that, you're expected to follow it up with supporting arguments.
Just sayin'.
The key here is quality and reliability. I've gone the underground route to watch shows that I've missed airing due to work obligations - it really sucks to miss out on an important episode in a story arc, and not get another chance to see it till reruns or DVD release (which may never happen!).
Sure, I got to see the episodes, but there was a vast range of quality - one episode would look great and have clear audio, but the next one I watched would be washed out, grainy, and have Chinese subtitles plastered on the screen at all times.
Then there's foreign films/shows pirated and delivered here: again, uneven quality, and usually fan-made subtitles that are almost incomprehensible.
I'd pay for quality content, with closed-captions available in my native language, commercial-free.
What I would like to see is a Netflix-like model in which a user pays a flat rate per month for total access to content. It would work the exact same way as Netflix - a subscriber would have X amount of content (say, three movies or five TV episodes) cached locally on the user's system in encrypted format, and the content would have to be 'returned' (ie, deleted) before downloading more (to prevent bandwidth hogs from queing an entire season at once). Content could be purchased permenantly for an extra charge.
In defense of the editors... the OLPC made the front page of Slashdot several times per month at least over the last year or more. Pretty sure you're the only one who hasn't heard of it.
Of course option 3 carries a romantic thrill, but the benefits aren't clear. And the price would likely be much higher.
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I agree with what you've said, however, I believe the indignation expressed here is a result of the fact that many here believe that we should ALREADY be prepared to do this - that we shouldn't be starting from scratch at the end of 2007; that the framework should've already been in place years ago. Yes, we've built many amazing unmanned probes since the first moon landing which can do things no man can do, but the progression of manned space travel is important to many people.
I have mixed feelings, myself. I always thought that the benefits of research into manned space missions trickle down into the general scientific body and thus have clear justification; however, that justification is tempered by the fact that a manned crew is exposed to fairly high risk factors. Nobody gets injured in space, it seems - they either make it there and back again, or die trying.
And, our probes keep getting better. In a few generations they'll be able to perform any task and gather any data that a man carrying his environment with him in a bubble could do. When all that information is fed back to the controllers on Earth, isn't that the same as actually being there? Aren't these creations, these tools, an extension of our nervous system in the same way our hands - or the tools in them - are? Does it make a difference if you're looking at the surface of the moon through wireless relay versus through a plexiglass visor? Any argument made that states that physically being there is important or different somehow is analogous to saying that a person wearing a cochlear implant to hear, or those new retinal-implant CCDs to see, isn't really 'here' and experiencing the world.
I think a debate needs to be opened within the branch of the scientific community that concerns space exploration, with the intent of laying down a framework of ideals and determining what the justification for a manned mission is.
Personally, the only way I see justification for another manned moon mission is to do habitat research; but I have a feeling that this return might be closer to a saber-rattling exercise, lest lesser-industrialized nations damage our power-hungry leaders' charter of 'manifest destiny'.
Every time I have random strange errors, the very next step after doing a standard malware/AV scan is popping in memtest86. I've had three sticks of RAM go bad in the last three or four years. A monkey could do it and it should be one of the first steps in the Idiot's Guide to Hardware Failure Diagnosis. Is it a lack of training?
As a counterpoint, look at Microsoft. They allow anyone and everyone to make hardware and software that's compatible with their OS. And guess what, Windows sucks.
That's also their biggest strength - versatility both to the casual user - and as a development platform - means more marketshare.
FTFA: Blackberry
Next comes the blackberry, I have no idea about this as a programming platform so cannot say much about the SDK support
Um, thanks for throwing that in, then...
"I dunno Ph0bia Mon Jan 12 at 4:08PM EST not@for.this.guy
It seems to me that in time like these, where experts are claiming that at the current rate of industrializationg, the planet has about 10 years left, we should be concentrating more on fixing the big problems then messing with stuff like this. This kind of 'progress' as Bishop put it always has a major downside, which we miraculously discover often years after its implementation. All I can say is, not for this guy . .."
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I read the parent post...and I have to say, it was one of the most boring posts of all time. I'm sure when it came out it was , ooo look at the commentary and opinion..but seriously..this post dragged and dragged..and my friends and I had this theme of reading "classic posts". The week previous we had read the first beowulf cliche joke..this has hands down got to be one of the worst posts of all time..it is long, it is pointless and it is very very boring does anyone even care about the post? i doubt it
Will this cut explain why they have to use a psychological test to tell replicants apart from humans and not, say, a blood sample?
I don't think they *could* go for a look-a-like. While Shatner doesn't look unusual or strange by any standard, he certainly looks unique. As does Nimoy. I've seen a lot of human beings and just nobody looks like these guys. Seeing as how they both have Ukranian Jewish heritage, maybe you'd have to look toward Mother Russia to find some doubles...
It's amazing what they did on a (relatively) shoestring TV show budget, using a freakin' CAR as the launch vehicle. Achieved a perfect launch, and only failed when the booster failed to separate. I would really have liked to see how the Robin would have glided (probably not very well).
If you want to see something in a similar vein to this launch that is really impressive, check out Top Gear's launch of a shuttle built from a Reliant Robin compact car: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN3JjUUdjWU
...Whoa. That is wicked cool. Now, make a lower-end one with cheaper hardware.
"That's because life IS a fundamental, real thing -- not merely a set of characteristics." You know, usually, when you make a statement like that, you're expected to follow it up with supporting arguments. Just sayin'.
The key here is quality and reliability. I've gone the underground route to watch shows that I've missed airing due to work obligations - it really sucks to miss out on an important episode in a story arc, and not get another chance to see it till reruns or DVD release (which may never happen!).
Sure, I got to see the episodes, but there was a vast range of quality - one episode would look great and have clear audio, but the next one I watched would be washed out, grainy, and have Chinese subtitles plastered on the screen at all times.
Then there's foreign films/shows pirated and delivered here: again, uneven quality, and usually fan-made subtitles that are almost incomprehensible.
I'd pay for quality content, with closed-captions available in my native language, commercial-free.
What I would like to see is a Netflix-like model in which a user pays a flat rate per month for total access to content. It would work the exact same way as Netflix - a subscriber would have X amount of content (say, three movies or five TV episodes) cached locally on the user's system in encrypted format, and the content would have to be 'returned' (ie, deleted) before downloading more (to prevent bandwidth hogs from queing an entire season at once). Content could be purchased permenantly for an extra charge.
In defense of the editors... the OLPC made the front page of Slashdot several times per month at least over the last year or more. Pretty sure you're the only one who hasn't heard of it.
Why is he modded as troll? The summary says they're $100 and he's pointing out they're not, even in Uruguay. Look, he cites a source and everything.
Of course option 3 carries a romantic thrill, but the benefits aren't clear. And the price would likely be much higher.
I agree with what you've said, however, I believe the indignation expressed here is a result of the fact that many here believe that we should ALREADY be prepared to do this - that we shouldn't be starting from scratch at the end of 2007; that the framework should've already been in place years ago. Yes, we've built many amazing unmanned probes since the first moon landing which can do things no man can do, but the progression of manned space travel is important to many people.
I have mixed feelings, myself. I always thought that the benefits of research into manned space missions trickle down into the general scientific body and thus have clear justification; however, that justification is tempered by the fact that a manned crew is exposed to fairly high risk factors. Nobody gets injured in space, it seems - they either make it there and back again, or die trying.
And, our probes keep getting better. In a few generations they'll be able to perform any task and gather any data that a man carrying his environment with him in a bubble could do. When all that information is fed back to the controllers on Earth, isn't that the same as actually being there? Aren't these creations, these tools, an extension of our nervous system in the same way our hands - or the tools in them - are? Does it make a difference if you're looking at the surface of the moon through wireless relay versus through a plexiglass visor? Any argument made that states that physically being there is important or different somehow is analogous to saying that a person wearing a cochlear implant to hear, or those new retinal-implant CCDs to see, isn't really 'here' and experiencing the world.
I think a debate needs to be opened within the branch of the scientific community that concerns space exploration, with the intent of laying down a framework of ideals and determining what the justification for a manned mission is.
Personally, the only way I see justification for another manned moon mission is to do habitat research; but I have a feeling that this return might be closer to a saber-rattling exercise, lest lesser-industrialized nations damage our power-hungry leaders' charter of 'manifest destiny'.
Time to start investing in midwestern property - it'll soon be prime beachfront real estate!
Every time I have random strange errors, the very next step after doing a standard malware/AV scan is popping in memtest86. I've had three sticks of RAM go bad in the last three or four years. A monkey could do it and it should be one of the first steps in the Idiot's Guide to Hardware Failure Diagnosis. Is it a lack of training?
Yeah, I got the same impression. Doesn't everyone here already know all about Gimp?
As a counterpoint, look at Microsoft. They allow anyone and everyone to make hardware and software that's compatible with their OS. And guess what, Windows sucks. That's also their biggest strength - versatility both to the casual user - and as a development platform - means more marketshare.
It'd be trivial as hell for Apple to allow java apps that run in a sandbox. It's obviously not security that Apple's worried about.
As with most of their products, Apple tends to dictate the user experience to an unusually high degree.
For whatever reason.
FTFA: Blackberry Next comes the blackberry, I have no idea about this as a programming platform so cannot say much about the SDK support Um, thanks for throwing that in, then...
Funny. I just clicked on the 'IE is evil' button at the top of that page, and Firefox promptly crashed :-/
A funny comment from that archived page:
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"I dunno
Ph0bia
Mon Jan 12 at 4:08PM EST
not@for.this.guy
It seems to me that in time like these, where experts are claiming that at the current rate of industrializationg, the planet has about 10 years left, we should be concentrating more on fixing the big problems then messing with stuff like this. This kind of 'progress' as Bishop put it always has a major downside, which we miraculously discover often years after its implementation. All I can say is, not for this guy . .
Ten years eh?
Still, you can't believe they'd delete a post that says "I love my new iPhone!"
I would agree, except for the fact that they have a history of deleting negative comments about their products from their forums, lawsuit or not.
Anymore more upset about Apple deleting dissenting posts in its forums than about the iPhone issue?
I'm laughing at the prospect of thousands of Slashdotters around the globe leaning in close to their monitors and crossing their eyes.
Reminds me of this XKCD comic (new window)