It is critical that right wing memes be cross-pollinated widely and frequently.
Only when the public is in a constant state of uncertainty and fear can they be cowed into supporting ideals contrary to their own enlightened self interest.
I "blame" Asimov. His premise to justify the android archetype was that positronic brains were so expensive and difficult to manufacture that you would want to use it for multiple purposes. Since most purposes already expected a humanoid formfactor, the humanoid android was an obvious choice.
However, processing power is actually fairly inexpensive. So it makes more sense to have a bunch of highly specialized "brains" carefully and specifically tailored to the application than have one expensive generalized machine. Nevermind how sentience is neither required or even desired for most of these applications.
I sometimes wonder if the situation would be improved if makers of 'traditional' categories of objects, like cars... verify every FRU's TPM on start and enter a lockout that can only be cleared by an authorized dealer if any tampering is suspected.
They already do that. Though, I guess "lip mode" may not fully qualify as a "lockout".
Mayan mathematics is interesting stuff. They had multiple counting systems, none of them unbounded. There was a very interesting How Stuff Works podcast on the subject, but I cannot seem to find a link...
End times are an important element in most Fundamentalist dogma. Jesus has been coming "real soon now" for nearly 2000 years. They will grab at the thinnest of straws at this point.
People assume that Doctor Who chronology is a strict progression of one episode to the next, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
Mandrake ice cream? Mandrake is poisonous, isn't it?
Also: Do you know what the QUEERS are doing to the SOIL?
It's only mostly dead.
Google speaks Spanish for me.
Before writing each book, GRRM flips a coin. Heads, he kills a character you like. Tails, he makes a character you hate likable.
It rather succinctly summarizes the entire oil industry.
For the record I have worked in industry almost my entire professional career. Everything from exploration to production to refining to distribution.
They are going for a steam-punk look.
You raise an interesting point. With 1.21 gigawatts on tap, why didn't Doc Brown put in an electric drive?
Negative.
It is critical that right wing memes be cross-pollinated widely and frequently.
Only when the public is in a constant state of uncertainty and fear can they be cowed into supporting ideals contrary to their own enlightened self interest.
It really hampers the possibility for creative ASCII art and the like that actually made Slashdot pretty cool back in the day. =\
And my "creative ASCII art", he means "penises".
I "blame" Asimov. His premise to justify the android archetype was that positronic brains were so expensive and difficult to manufacture that you would want to use it for multiple purposes. Since most purposes already expected a humanoid formfactor, the humanoid android was an obvious choice.
However, processing power is actually fairly inexpensive. So it makes more sense to have a bunch of highly specialized "brains" carefully and specifically tailored to the application than have one expensive generalized machine. Nevermind how sentience is neither required or even desired for most of these applications.
Skip to SmartCap V 6.0 where they put the correct thoughts directly in your brain.
I sometimes wonder if the situation would be improved if makers of 'traditional' categories of objects, like cars ... verify every FRU's TPM on start and enter a lockout that can only be cleared by an authorized dealer if any tampering is suspected.
They already do that. Though, I guess "lip mode" may not fully qualify as a "lockout".
Videos are a good way to cover an inability to write with an avalanche of "um", "uh", and "so...."
I SAID A MAGICAL PRINCESS RIDING A PINK UNICORN WILL SOLVE IT!
I, for one, grow weary of this mythical "truly free market". Rather I would like some practical solutions for the problem at hand.
Give a man a match and he is warm for a day.
Light him on fire, and he is warm for the rest of his life.
Hey! I've heard of a "tricorder" and I don't have ... oh look, a chicken.
Wow. I guess after you dig past all the "news", "email", "groups", "ads", and "other crap" they still have search.
How Quaint.
Well, there goes my plan. Now I'm just a guy with a shitload of rats^H^H^H^H snakes in his basement.
They found life, just not the kind they were expecting.... http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
Not world's biggest plant. The plant builds the world's biggest batteries. Due to a translation error, the batteries measure 1m on a side.
Mayan mathematics is interesting stuff. They had multiple counting systems, none of them unbounded. There was a very interesting How Stuff Works podcast on the subject, but I cannot seem to find a link...
End times are an important element in most Fundamentalist dogma. Jesus has been coming "real soon now" for nearly 2000 years. They will grab at the thinnest of straws at this point.
There's no real engineering in most software.
I wish that every person with "engineer" in their title understood the implications of engineered software and worked diligently to bring them about.
After consulting my MBA decoder ring, I will pick "cheap". Twice.
People assume that Doctor Who chronology is a strict progression of one episode to the next, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.