The soviets tried, software, hard science and cold calculations vs spirit. Rocky now is a statue, Drago only lives as a parody of Brokeback Mountain...
There are plenty of toys doing exactly that. It's not a real robot.
Every lego freak can build something like that in a few hours. Wake me when it's real news.
Bah. Not even fark posted it...
Last month I spent a few days in Vegas, went to Frys, and the 642 was there, waiting for me. At a RIDICULOUS price of US$67. Come on, some of my bar tabs costs more than 67 bucks.
I grabbed the little baby. When I arrive home, the only unresolved issue was the region-lock, but a few google clicks and presto. Works great with Region 4 discs, plays 99% of all divx movies I try and saved me hundred of hours of encoding SVCDs.
I dont need a $249 device to do everything I do with a $67.
When Company A decides to change from Windows to Linux, or from Photoshop to OpenPaint (ok, I'm making that up) nobody start to cry.
The decision does not apply to private-owned companies, nor to any specific-used software. Nobody will drop Oracle because they MUST use mySQL. You can't simply change tools like that.
The point is: 95% of every government-related office work is plain office stuff. Answer mails, type letters, fill forms... It can be done as easily with a Linux / *Office as with a Windows/MsOffice solution.
The living-hell I work right now is going to pay $20.000 in Windows/Office licenses. I tried and tried to show to my manager that a OpenSource solution IS much cheaper, but he doesn't want to bother with the tech support issues. He's not blind, he's a PHP Biatch, a rather good Linux/BSD geek, but your know what they say about power...
After all, how many people use 10% of MS Word's features?
I've been involved in a few cool projects, and the base are usually shelf systems. High-end Alpha Stations, Digital Servers, Unix/NT SOs, Oracle Databases, you name it.
It's easier to mantain, contract services are cheaper, and development is cheaper too.
The specialized tools, otherwise, are developed in-house or by form of external contracts, but even that way plain win32 environments are best suited for the job. A C++ programmer costs a lot more than a GOOD Delphi coder. We can save money and hire the C++ guy to do the critical stuff AND the Delphi guys to do the easy stuff.
When something STARTS obsolete it really pisses me off. If the friggin edition is so special, release it, not a gap-filling money-harvesting disc that WILL be useless in a few months. I like money, I love it, but I know one can make much more money NOT calling people "stupid".
After a few months, the hype was gone, and with it the desire of buying LOTR. Should they release the special edition at once OR later, but NOT releasing the idea of an special edition side-by-side the normal one, I'd be with it right on my desk...
Just like Spiderman. Some marketing genious decided to save money, and DON'T make a two-sided DVD, with widescreen and TV formats. Released only the square one, here in Brazil. End of story? I passed the DVD and... KAZAA!!!!
Yes, boys... here in Brazil Spiderman's DVD is FULL SCREEN. Can you believe it? Since a lot of primitive stupid ancient 12" TV Ownsers complain about "the black strips", people decided to release movies only in full screen mode.
Happened with Harry Potter, too (not that I care).
So, Kazaa. It's widescreen, at least.
Oh, Stan, a little advice: You're not a young kid anymore, should've learned to read the small print.
GSM Triband, GPRS, Bluetooth, infrared access. And a nice tiny colour screen.
I use ICQ, web, email, connecting to it thru a bluetooth memory stick and a sony clié. I also have a bluetooth dongle on the PC. Folks, it's really nice to access the Net using the GPRS modem. It's not for everyday use, but if my ISDN link goes down, now I have a backup.
For now speed is below 56K, but it will increase (we hope so).
Cost? For free until Jan 1st. After that, people are talking about R$0,40/MB. Since the Dollar is around R$3,70, it will be really cheap.
Didn�t they watch Episode One? Robots are Out!!!
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An army of robots, with a central control? Does not work. why they dont try clones, instead?
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Only a few comments, a nice sunday afternoon with no people at home and the site is already gone? I fear Slashdot. I really do.
I know everything about the FCC.
I already block China (and Taiwan, to be fair and balanced) using pobox's antispam service.
Robotic Overlor-oh, never mind, it crashed...
The soviets tried, software, hard science and cold calculations vs spirit. Rocky now is a statue, Drago only lives as a parody of Brokeback Mountain...
What could possibly go wrong?
a lot of people build lego transformers. It't not news. Just UTFG it, you'll be surprised.
There are plenty of toys doing exactly that. It's not a real robot. Every lego freak can build something like that in a few hours. Wake me when it's real news. Bah. Not even fark posted it...
Am I the only one that remembers Futurama's brain slugs?
GIS for Futurama Brain Slugs
I seriously doubt the skills of any engineer who spells "nucular reactors". TWICE. And I'm not a english-speaking citizen...
It does the Kessel run in under 12 Parsecs?
Any sensible AI will be smart enough to figure that a guy willing to fuck a silicon doll is not worth it, and will shutdown itself.
Stick with Blonde dolls, you can even maintain the code, I've heard it's a BASIC striped-down version fo ELIZA...
Last month I spent a few days in Vegas, went to Frys, and the 642 was there, waiting for me. At a RIDICULOUS price of US$67. Come on, some of my bar tabs costs more than 67 bucks.
I grabbed the little baby. When I arrive home, the only unresolved issue was the region-lock, but a few google clicks and presto. Works great with Region 4 discs, plays 99% of all divx movies I try and saved me hundred of hours of encoding SVCDs.
I dont need a $249 device to do everything I do with a $67.
Self-healing chips. OK, we can built a T1000 now. The "rerouting" scene is a classic in SCI-FI, but what if...
Some stupid worm uses a backdoor to start a haywire self-healing sequence?
Dave... Dave... Nah. More like... FZzzzzttt...
It will NOT stop piracy, and will NOT stop any P2P network from providing juicy brand new films, sometimes BEFORE their official release.
BUT... weekend-long rental fees will go down the drain. Who will pay an extra for a 8-hour maximum rental?
Wouldn't be lovelly to face a BSOD while driving at 120Km/h, in a rainy night?
Come on, it's 2004. At least an EGA mousepad. A VGA one, please. 7 colour sucks. My ZX Spectrum dislayed 256 colours.
Oh my god, we will understand Kenny! Ah, those NASA bastards...
When Company A decides to change from Windows to Linux, or from Photoshop to OpenPaint (ok, I'm making that up) nobody start to cry.
The decision does not apply to private-owned companies, nor to any specific-used software. Nobody will drop Oracle because they MUST use mySQL. You can't simply change tools like that.
The point is: 95% of every government-related office work is plain office stuff. Answer mails, type letters, fill forms... It can be done as easily with a Linux / *Office as with a Windows/MsOffice solution.
The living-hell I work right now is going to pay $20.000 in Windows/Office licenses. I tried and tried to show to my manager that a OpenSource solution IS much cheaper, but he doesn't want to bother with the tech support issues. He's not blind, he's a PHP Biatch, a rather good Linux/BSD geek, but your know what they say about power...
After all, how many people use 10% of MS Word's features?
I've been involved in a few cool projects, and the base are usually shelf systems. High-end Alpha Stations, Digital Servers, Unix/NT SOs, Oracle Databases, you name it.
It's easier to mantain, contract services are cheaper, and development is cheaper too.
The specialized tools, otherwise, are developed in-house or by form of external contracts, but even that way plain win32 environments are best suited for the job. A C++ programmer costs a lot more than a GOOD Delphi coder. We can save money and hire the C++ guy to do the critical stuff AND the Delphi guys to do the easy stuff.
Step 1: CD C:\data\sources\
/* Microsoft codebase V2.0...
Step 2: erase *.c
Step 3: erase *.h
Step 4: notepad.exe newrelease.txt
Step 5: Start typing...
When something STARTS obsolete it really pisses me off. If the friggin edition is so special, release it, not a gap-filling money-harvesting disc that WILL be useless in a few months. I like money, I love it, but I know one can make much more money NOT calling people "stupid".
After a few months, the hype was gone, and with it the desire of buying LOTR. Should they release the special edition at once OR later, but NOT releasing the idea of an special edition side-by-side the normal one, I'd be with it right on my desk...
Just like Spiderman. Some marketing genious decided to save money, and DON'T make a two-sided DVD, with widescreen and TV formats. Released only the square one, here in Brazil. End of story? I passed the DVD and... KAZAA!!!!
Yes, boys... here in Brazil Spiderman's DVD is FULL SCREEN. Can you believe it? Since a lot of primitive stupid ancient 12" TV Ownsers complain about "the black strips", people decided to release movies only in full screen mode.
Happened with Harry Potter, too (not that I care).
So, Kazaa. It's widescreen, at least.
Oh, Stan, a little advice: You're not a young kid anymore, should've learned to read the small print.
GSM Triband, GPRS, Bluetooth, infrared access. And a nice tiny colour screen.
I use ICQ, web, email, connecting to it thru a bluetooth memory stick and a sony clié. I also have a bluetooth dongle on the PC. Folks, it's really nice to access the Net using the GPRS modem. It's not for everyday use, but if my ISDN link goes down, now I have a backup.
For now speed is below 56K, but it will increase (we hope so).
Cost? For free until Jan 1st. After that, people are talking about R$0,40/MB. Since the Dollar is around R$3,70, it will be really cheap.
An army of robots, with a central control? Does not work. why they dont try clones, instead?