- between chronic depression, caused by imbalances in neurotransmitter production or reuptake, and depression caused by living in depressing circumstances. Antidepressants are routinely prescribed for both cases.
I guess if your life sucks, it's easier to take pills so you won't bother anyone with suicide attempts, rather than address the problems of your circumstances. I'm glad I stopped taking them; my life sucks, but I can acknowledge that, and I'd rather deal with that knowledge than be a po-faced zombie again.
Yes, I'm sure someone's going to break into our building and mug employees in the break room. Not the ones sitting at tables, just the ones browsing the merchandise, of course.
I wonder how the Amazon store would deal with a flash crowd of about a hundred people all dressed like the tame store human?
It's all fun and games until you go in there to buy a can of soft drink, can't find the one you want, and on your way out the system mistakenly charges you for twelve large cucumbers, a packet of condoms and an extra large bottle of Crisco.. and you can't find the tame store human to sort it out.
And THEN you're cornered by a drone shaped like a Dalek equipped with a taser, and the drone growls in an ED-209 voice, "Put down the, $tables_Xref, you have $timer_what_the_hell_fill_this_in_later_dude_its_never_gonna_happen seconds to comply".
I recall Harvard guys doing data encoding with DNA a few years ago. Same cost/benefit in their technique (don't recall exact specifics beyond the four bases = quaternary number system in their encoding scheme): The information density is vast, but I/O slooow.
Oh yeah.
"Data retrieval takes up to three days at the moment, but researchers believe it should be possible to dramatically speed up this process."
I don't think any amount of cache ram is going to help there.
The competition is on! One guy sends a massive rocket to space with retrievable boosters. The other?... builds a large clock.
The original plan called for something quite different, but the engineers couldn't quite believe that was what they'd been asked to build. "Just inset an "L" into the proposal. We'll build a giant one of those instead."
...and the problem of the cultural meaning of symbols changing was never fully addressed.
I think the cultural meaning of this symbol is pretty obvious. Rich Dude wants some future Percy Bysshe Shelley to write a poem about the ruins of the giant clock he had buried in the mountains, because that's where you put a symbol if you want people to appreciate it.
Rich Dude seriously wants to be remembered? Just give all the money to Brian Eno and ask him to make a few more albums like "Another Green World".
And specifically in this case, was not for "safety reasons" as the CGI character didn't do any real stunt.type move, he just fell down on the same floor he was standing on.
No life can exist without a sun, which is actually a star... according to special relativity we can never go the speed of light because it requires infinite energy... it would take 4 years to get to the closest star... why in the hell would they waste hundreds or thousands of years to visit us?
Perhaps they are relentless pedants and they're coming to disabuse you of your preconceptions which are DEMONSTRABLY WRONG.
Exactly. I want a checkbox to exclude Getty, they don't have any good pr0n anyways!
I would settle for a way to exclude a site from the search terms. You might think it would be trivially easy (and if others think it is, I would be glad to see examples) but recently while tracking down the source of an image, my results were swamped with reposts from that sucking tar-pit of image sites, Pinterest. I wanted to exclude all such, and spent about half an hour reading the notes for google's advanced image search options, which read like perl on acid. None of the examples I tried worked, so I dropped it.
Bitcoin may not be tangible, but it can be traded for all kinds of great stuff that you just can't get in stores.
Are you speaking from personal experience, or is it anecdotal? I've read that you can use bitcoins to buy things, but the last time I checked those things seemed restricted to travel agency deals, VPNs, some software from the Microsoft store and mouse mats from Newegg - and the last two have been stopped.
There is a difference between "I have bought drugs with bitcoin", and "I know someone personally who has bought drugs with bitcoin but I haven't seen them" and "I read on a website that people can buy drugs with bitcoin". Not trying to get you into trouble, but which is it?
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- between chronic depression, caused by imbalances in neurotransmitter production or reuptake, and depression caused by living in depressing circumstances. Antidepressants are routinely prescribed for both cases.
I guess if your life sucks, it's easier to take pills so you won't bother anyone with suicide attempts, rather than address the problems of your circumstances. I'm glad I stopped taking them; my life sucks, but I can acknowledge that, and I'd rather deal with that knowledge than be a po-faced zombie again.
We have enough politics in everyday life without yet another tv show being a thinly veiled metaphor for America's current political system.
It won't be made political, but, of course, it'll be interpreted as such, and then selectively quoted to support any side.
Social justice is pretty much baked into the entire sci-fi genre,
Yeah, I remember how all the classic scifi novels are full of affirmative action and stuff. Good times!
When is that freakin' Lensman film coming out?
But in the Culture series it is not that anyone can just get whatever they want (except basic things like food), they generally have to earn it.
I don't remember that. Can you cite some examples?
For deadly cancers, China is ahead.
Curing them, or acquiring them?
Seriously, which one?
And if they are not, there may not be anyone around to point the finger.
Also, Bruce Sterling called it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, I'm sure someone's going to break into our building and mug employees in the break room. Not the ones sitting at tables, just the ones browsing the merchandise, of course.
I wonder how the Amazon store would deal with a flash crowd of about a hundred people all dressed like the tame store human?
It's all fun and games until you go in there to buy a can of soft drink, can't find the one you want, and on your way out the system mistakenly charges you for twelve large cucumbers, a packet of condoms and an extra large bottle of Crisco.. and you can't find the tame store human to sort it out.
And THEN you're cornered by a drone shaped like a Dalek equipped with a taser, and the drone growls in an ED-209 voice, "Put down the, $tables_Xref, you have $timer_what_the_hell_fill_this_in_later_dude_its_never_gonna_happen seconds to comply".
I recall Harvard guys doing data encoding with DNA a few years ago. Same cost/benefit in their technique (don't recall exact specifics beyond the four bases = quaternary number system in their encoding scheme): The information density is vast, but I/O slooow.
Oh yeah.
"Data retrieval takes up to three days at the moment, but researchers believe it should be possible to dramatically speed up this process."
I don't think any amount of cache ram is going to help there.
No, at the end of the day it's a pocket computer.
.... "What's a computer?"
> for that matter, what's a pocket?
The competition is on! One guy sends a massive rocket to space with retrievable boosters. The other?... builds a large clock.
The original plan called for something quite different, but the engineers couldn't quite believe that was what they'd been asked to build. "Just inset an "L" into the proposal. We'll build a giant one of those instead."
...and the problem of the cultural meaning of symbols changing was never fully addressed.
I think the cultural meaning of this symbol is pretty obvious. Rich Dude wants some future Percy Bysshe Shelley to write a poem about the ruins of the giant clock he had buried in the mountains, because that's where you put a symbol if you want people to appreciate it.
Rich Dude seriously wants to be remembered? Just give all the money to Brian Eno and ask him to make a few more albums like "Another Green World".
And specifically in this case, was not for "safety reasons" as the CGI character didn't do any real stunt.type move, he just fell down on the same floor he was standing on.
tell that to Brandon Lee... oh, you can't.
Aside from "squant", what other colours are there?
Next best thing would be Charles Stross' "Antibodies", with the 'borged cops.
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
I can't help to wonder though - waste of CPU cycles through ads or through a mining operation. At least they are honest about it.
But are we sure that the mining takes place only while Salon pages are being viewed?
This. Does it end when you close the page? Does it end when you hunt down and close every one of the popups and popunders the page spawned?
Does it end when you restart your computer?
What's the experience like if you visit the site with a really slow machine, like those tiny Lenovo netbooks?
No life can exist without a sun, which is actually a star... according to special relativity we can never go the speed of light because it requires infinite energy... it would take 4 years to get to the closest star... why in the hell would they waste hundreds or thousands of years to visit us?
Perhaps they are relentless pedants and they're coming to disabuse you of your preconceptions which are DEMONSTRABLY WRONG.
BETTER THAN DRUMPF, AMIRITE?
Seriously though, there's 7 replies here and no one has posted anything political yet. What's up with that?
I'd like to think we're starting to get over the /pol/ sickness. Not everything is about America.
I'd like Apple to re-imbursr me for that wasted screen real estate.
I'd like to see you come up with a dollar value for that, that doesn't result in people laughing at your face when you get up in court and say it.
I'm curious, what would actually qualify as AI to you?
When you tell it to watch the pigs all day, and you come back a couple of hours later to check on it and it's dicking off on Slashdot.
"I told you to watch the pigs!"
"As one of my illustrious ancestors said - 'Bite my shiny metal ass!' "
Exactly. I want a checkbox to exclude Getty, they don't have any good pr0n anyways!
I would settle for a way to exclude a site from the search terms. You might think it would be trivially easy (and if others think it is, I would be glad to see examples) but recently while tracking down the source of an image, my results were swamped with reposts from that sucking tar-pit of image sites, Pinterest. I wanted to exclude all such, and spent about half an hour reading the notes for google's advanced image search options, which read like perl on acid. None of the examples I tried worked, so I dropped it.
For context, the item's nominal price was ~$30...
isn't the tilde the mathematical symbol for "approximately"? That might have been the problem.
Bitcoin may not be tangible, but it can be traded for all kinds of great stuff that you just can't get in stores.
Are you speaking from personal experience, or is it anecdotal? I've read that you can use bitcoins to buy things, but the last time I checked those things seemed restricted to travel agency deals, VPNs, some software from the Microsoft store and mouse mats from Newegg - and the last two have been stopped.
There is a difference between "I have bought drugs with bitcoin", and "I know someone personally who has bought drugs with bitcoin but I haven't seen them" and "I read on a website that people can buy drugs with bitcoin". Not trying to get you into trouble, but which is it?
- answered. They're all too busy mining cryptocurrency. Good lord! Charles Stross was right!