It's vanity, and arrogance. Mankind wants to be able to say "Mother nature take millennia to make changes like this but we're doing it in decades" and then we want to be able to say "Not only that! We can make it go back the other way too!" And as an extra bonus we can say "All those stupid people are doing it! And also Very Big Corp. of America!"
As for you anecdotal evidence, in the winter and in the summer hardly a day goes by without the weather-guy prattling on about whatever record we broke today or the one we came within a degree or half an inch of. This happens every year. Whether the media has decided to dub the year an "unusually warm" year or a "unusually dry" year, or a "extremely cold" year. The weather changes from year to year decade to decade. And the news media exaggerates the problem even more. They love to start off the show with footage of downed telephone lines in the winter and sweating kids playing in hydrants in the summer. And even more they like to end the show with an upbeat story about how local teens are doing their part to stop global warming. I firmly believe that if global warming is happening we haven't even noticed it's effects yet.
But then, I'm not a meteorologist so I could be completely off, But this is how the whole situation appears to me. It just doesn't seem possible that people could accurately simulate what's going on in our atmosphere, when the local news can't seem simulate more then a day and a half into the future.
Well, the paper I'd prove it on wouldn't really be publishable. But lets say I do publish my amazing theorys on Anti-Gravity. The someone takes it and starts making millions by selling those hoverboards like in Back To The Future. I couldn't have made millions because I didn't have the up front cash to start manufacturing. So basically the years I've spent playing quake and researching Anti-Grav have given me a bit of recognition and made somebody else, who had no connection to me, extremely rich.
It wouldn't be so bad if say, I had posted the Anti-Grav information here and people started making their own hover-boards and levi's for there own private use. But if somebody else is selling a technology I came up with, it doesn't seem fair that I wouldn't get a cut.
16mb or 32mb? I think you've been listening to too much of Apple's propaganda. Unless you're talking about those super-cheap computers they give away if you buy 3-year AOL or something. But they're not in the iMac's price range anyway.
But getting rid of patents is just as bad. Let's say I'm working on an Anti-Gravity device. When I finish it I sure want to be able to sell it. And I don't want people making genaric-brand Anti-Gravs without paying a licensing fee because that would mean I'd be 100% out of buisness.
If there were no patents I'd probably be happy with just proving to myself that it could be done on paper then going off to play more Quake.
Perhaps I'm just lazy, or gready or something. But I can't imagine I'm the only person who thinks this way.
Ah good! This is exactly what we've been trying to say. There are lots of possible combinations of these stages that are prior art. And they still express the same essential algorithm.
This would be a good one. If he had ever said that. That's a myth. It was mentioned in a PCMag. (Or mabey PCWorld) and now everyone thinks it's the truth but no one can point to where he said it.
Yes. But he hasn't actualy lost any money. He makes that money per second no matter what he's doing. Picking up stuff off the floor, doing paper work. Being interviewed. whatever. So he gets that money plus the $50k.
Who pays bills with cash anyway? But what if you're on the road somewhere and need to buy a sandwitch? Or pay a toll?
With the relese of the HandSpring visor, and the success of the Palm devices how do you see this effecting the WinCE devices, and will microsoft continue to compete in this arena?
Over the next one or two decades what do you beleve will be the role of the desktop PC compared to portable web-surfing gadgets, and other netPCs?(either tv-top or desktop)
Wait a second. IT's not realy a "Dip switch tool". IT's just the pen they put in all the other large knives. They've just marked it as "(ideal for dipswitches)" and now it's a new tool?
Nothing. You need the cat to keep the eyes alive. I sugest we use cats instead of Quick-cams. We could strap the cat on top of the monitor. In fact some cats already like sitting on monitors. From the pictures it looks like they'll soon rival the quick-cams in resolution.
Er... Could you say where it's mentioned? I realy don't remember it being mentioned in 2010. I thought an important plot point in 2061 was that nobody knew about it.
Exactly, if this happened next door to me, my first thought would be to get in my car and drive as fast as I could until my gas tank was empty. (Perhaps even steal a faster car.) In a populated area the effects of this could be worse then the accident itself.
I've always worried about that with reagards to Seabrook Station here in New England. Apperently the evacuation plan involves the people coming from the beach to actualy drive towards the plant for a short stretch to get on roads that could handle the traffic. I honestly beleve that police would have to start shooting at people to inforce this.
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It's vanity, and arrogance. Mankind wants to be able to say "Mother nature take millennia to make changes like this but we're doing it in decades" and then we want to be able to say "Not only that! We can make it go back the other way too!" And as an extra bonus we can say "All those stupid people are doing it! And also Very Big Corp. of America!"
As for you anecdotal evidence, in the winter and in the summer hardly a day goes by without the weather-guy prattling on about whatever record we broke today or the one we came within a degree or half an inch of. This happens every year. Whether the media has decided to dub the year an "unusually warm" year or a "unusually dry" year, or a "extremely cold" year. The weather changes from year to year decade to decade.
And the news media exaggerates the problem even more. They love to start off the show with footage of downed telephone lines in the winter and sweating kids playing in hydrants in the summer. And even more they like to end the show with an upbeat story about how local teens are doing their part to stop global warming. I firmly believe that if global warming is happening we haven't even noticed it's effects yet.
But then, I'm not a meteorologist so I could be completely off, But this is how the whole situation appears to me. It just doesn't seem possible that people could accurately simulate what's going on in our atmosphere, when the local news can't seem simulate more then a day and a half into the future.
Well, the paper I'd prove it on wouldn't really be publishable. But lets say I do publish my amazing theorys on Anti-Gravity. The someone takes it and starts making millions by selling those hoverboards like in Back To The Future.
I couldn't have made millions because I didn't have the up front cash to start manufacturing.
So basically the years I've spent playing quake and researching Anti-Grav have given me a bit of recognition and made somebody else, who had no connection to me, extremely rich.
It wouldn't be so bad if say, I had posted the Anti-Grav information here and people started making their own hover-boards and levi's for there own private use. But if somebody else is selling a technology I came up with, it doesn't seem fair that I wouldn't get a cut.
16mb or 32mb? I think you've been listening to too much of Apple's propaganda. Unless you're talking about those super-cheap computers they give away if you buy 3-year AOL or something. But they're not in the iMac's price range anyway.
But getting rid of patents is just as bad. Let's say I'm working on an Anti-Gravity device. When I finish it I sure want to be able to sell it. And I don't want people making genaric-brand Anti-Gravs without paying a licensing fee because that would mean I'd be 100% out of buisness.
If there were no patents I'd probably be happy with just proving to myself that it could be done on paper then going off to play more Quake.
Perhaps I'm just lazy, or gready or something. But I can't imagine I'm the only person who thinks this way.
Ah good! This is exactly what we've been trying to say. There are lots of possible combinations of these stages that are prior art. And they still express the same essential algorithm.
How 'bout Buy.com? They store all of my address and credit-card numbers for future use. How is this diferent then Amazon's system?
This would be a good one. If he had ever said that. That's a myth. It was mentioned in a PCMag. (Or mabey PCWorld) and now everyone thinks it's the truth but no one can point to where he said it.
So what's he do for fast food? He must at least sometimes be both hungy and in a hurry.
Yes. But he hasn't actualy lost any money. He makes that money per second no matter what he's doing. Picking up stuff off the floor, doing paper work. Being interviewed. whatever.
So he gets that money plus the $50k.
Who pays bills with cash anyway? But what if you're on the road somewhere and need to buy a sandwitch? Or pay a toll?
"all the user has to do is open the email. "
Well it could be worse. Instead of stealing passwords it could be initiating Nth degree binary loops.
He'd probably save time that way. After all if it's cash, it'll save him at least one trip to the ATM machine. (Or however he gets cash.)
With the relese of the HandSpring visor, and the success of the Palm devices how do you see this effecting the WinCE devices, and will microsoft continue to compete in this arena?
Over the next one or two decades what do you beleve will be the role of the desktop PC compared to portable web-surfing gadgets, and other netPCs?(either tv-top or desktop)
Wait a second. IT's not realy a "Dip switch tool". IT's just the pen they put in all the other large knives. They've just marked it as "(ideal for dipswitches)" and now it's a new tool?
Let them do thier own research.
Nothing. You need the cat to keep the eyes alive. I sugest we use cats instead of Quick-cams. We could strap the cat on top of the monitor. In fact some cats already like sitting on monitors. From the pictures it looks like they'll soon rival the quick-cams in resolution.
In fairness, It's possible he took 7min to type it up.
I think they'd be just as likely to send fighters, to stop other people's diamond harvesting ships.
Er... Could you say where it's mentioned? I realy don't remember it being mentioned in 2010. I thought an important plot point in 2061 was that nobody knew about it.
But that still doesn't mean that there's "No Future" in VHS.
I mean, if you had bought Beta, you'd regret it now, right?
Exactly, if this happened next door to me, my first thought would be to get in my car and drive as fast as I could until my gas tank was empty. (Perhaps even steal a faster car.)
In a populated area the effects of this could be worse then the accident itself.
I've always worried about that with reagards to Seabrook Station here in New England. Apperently the evacuation plan involves the people coming from the beach to actualy drive towards the plant for a short stretch to get on roads that could handle the traffic. I honestly beleve that police would have to start shooting at people to inforce this.
More likely it went like this :
"What's the number for the doohicky?"
"It's, ah, [looks at sheet. "10cm"] It's ten."
"Ok Ten it is."
[Writes "10ft"]
I was under the impression that twelve would be divisable by 1,2,4,4,6 even under base12,base16, or base60.
I don't understand your point.
I wonder how hard you'd have to hit something before you felt it. It lookes likes there's a lot of space between you and the outer-sphere.
It looks like you could get hit by a car and just bounce away.
Putting the Sun between the lens and an object 30 feet away? Yea. I'd say that'd incinerate the object. The lens too!
You missed yesterdays news. He's got an 'honorary' one.