The first version may only have one pixel, but higher resolution lens displays - like those seen in Terminator
No character -- that I am aware of -- had electronic contact lenses in the movie Terminator. I don't recall John Connor or Kyle Reese wearing such lenses. The titular character had a graphical display overlay on the visual input from it's "eyes", but it did not wear contact lenses.
The president preceeding Obama managed to convince many people he was a barely-literate, inbred "President Dunsel". He had to have been pretty intelligent to effectively pull that off.
First-generation search engines such as AltaVista â" built when the Web had only a few hundred thousand sites â" produced notoriously goofy and spam-prone results. Well, when you search the Android Market for 'restaurant guide' and the top result is the U.S. Army Survival Guide, it begins to seem like we haven't come very far.
Why would one expect anything different in a civilization where knowledge (like search engine algorithms) is legally locked away indefinitely from the rest of mankind?
I wish the Occupy group would add copyright fairuse reform to their agenda.
Agreed. Copyright reform (or, better yet, abolishment) is something modern society is in dire need of. Unfortunately, things just keep getting worse and worse.
We need some sort of "single-payer" system for lawyers. Clients should not have to pay for lawyers; lawyers should all be public servants. Sure such an alternative system for compensating lawyers has its downsides, but are they worse than having a justice-system-in-name-only?
While I agree with the majority of your post, if I create something and decide to stop selling it, lock it away, and never let it see the light of day, that should be my right.
Why on earth would anyone think this? Sociopathy? Megalomania? Why???
The weird thing is, the base theories of chemistry suggest that there's no reason oil and water shouldn't mix,
Huh? I thought oil and water don't mix because oils have primarily non-polar covalent bonds vs the ionic bonds in water molecules? That's what I was taught, and a quick google finds that this appears to be the generally accepted answer.
A bike like this would definitely need some sort of gyro-stabilization similar to the segway (remember those?). That is, it should be able to remain upright on its own. The bike looks a little precarious at slower, city-driving speeds.
Now put in Babylon 5 and you've got some real *beep* going on.
"*beep*"?
Seriously, "*beep*"? You couldn't say "sh*t" or "s__t" or even "stuff", or just "*beep*"? The average reader here is probably 30, I'm pretty sure we can handle the occasional in-context swear word.
He can't help it, When he types "shit", it automatically appears as "*beep*" on your screen.
A particular style of conservative Protestantism actively discourages the proper study of many subjects. In the really extreme cases, they'll go after math departments for teaching that pi != 3
If by that you mean get rid of copyright and patent law, you are absolutely right. The negatives of those two sets of laws far far outweigh the benefits (even ignoring all the stupid lawsuits over them).
Copyright and patent laws will need to go the way of the dinosaur eventually if human civilization is to continue to advance. The sooner we do it, the better.
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No character -- that I am aware of -- had electronic contact lenses in the movie Terminator. I don't recall John Connor or Kyle Reese wearing such lenses. The titular character had a graphical display overlay on the visual input from it's "eyes", but it did not wear contact lenses.
I had no idea cavemen spoke Latin!
"I had to hit her. She made me do it".
I think it's even worse that people think voting, at this point, even matters anymore.
If you want change, you're going to have to attack the sources of the problem: political parties, lobbyists, and the media. Voting is for suckers.
I'm glad the Founding Fathers did not think the same way.
You had me at "big tits".
Cool. It's literary criticism for games, where anything can mean anything.
You think that's bad? I once read of an external laptop battery pack being described as "sexy" in a trade magazine a number of years ago.
The president preceeding Obama managed to convince many people he was a barely-literate, inbred "President Dunsel". He had to have been pretty intelligent to effectively pull that off.
Why would one expect anything different in a civilization where knowledge (like search engine algorithms) is legally locked away indefinitely from the rest of mankind?
Agreed. Copyright reform (or, better yet, abolishment) is something modern society is in dire need of. Unfortunately, things just keep getting worse and worse.
We need some sort of "single-payer" system for lawyers. Clients should not have to pay for lawyers; lawyers should all be public servants. Sure such an alternative system for compensating lawyers has its downsides, but are they worse than having a justice-system-in-name-only?
Privatized justice is ludicrous.
Why on earth would anyone think this? Sociopathy? Megalomania? Why???
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you get well soon.
Huh? I thought oil and water don't mix because oils have primarily non-polar covalent bonds vs the ionic bonds in water molecules? That's what I was taught, and a quick google finds that this appears to be the generally accepted answer.
Cool! My dad can finally download 8-tracks legally!
A bike like this would definitely need some sort of gyro-stabilization similar to the segway (remember those?). That is, it should be able to remain upright on its own. The bike looks a little precarious at slower, city-driving speeds.
Transporter accident?
He can't help it, When he types "shit", it automatically appears as "*beep*" on your screen.
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No, only one of those things should be free: the one that is infinitely reproducible at no cost/time/effort.
Um, intellectual property rights -- specifically patents and copyright -- are inherently anti-capitalistic.
What we need is an MLK-like figure making an impassioned and influential speech promoting the abolition of patent and copyright laws.
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If by that you mean get rid of copyright and patent law, you are absolutely right. The negatives of those two sets of laws far far outweigh the benefits (even ignoring all the stupid lawsuits over them).
Copyright and patent laws will need to go the way of the dinosaur eventually if human civilization is to continue to advance. The sooner we do it, the better.