Anderson really is a hack, and what they've done to Herbert's pretty majestic writing is a travesty.
THEY HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING to Frank Herbert's majestic writing. The original works stand, and Brian and what's-his-name are as entitled to write lame Dune fanfic packed with giant robot battles as anyone.
I'd sooner just read point form chronologies of what happened after Chapterhouse Dune or chronologies of the Butlerian Jihad than have to wade through acres of bad prose.
And that's why we have the Dune Encyclopedia, even if Frank Herbert said it wasn't canon.
"YoY"? I understand they are happy with the result, but that is one of the strangest exclamations of joy I've ever heard, and I used to watch Ren and Stimpy. YoY!
(I know, it means "year over year", but I had to look it up.)
Australia (per capita), a country that faces a similar geographic situation.
Uh, no, it isn't. And no, it doesn't. Unless you mean "largest, geographically", and I'm guessing that'd be either Russia or China, depending on which territories they're claiming this week.
I'm almost certain that when I first read that article a few days ago, it said the coprocessor was named "Xenu". I remember thinking "Wow. The Scientologists aren't going to be happy about that."
Plastic has great utility (as long as it's safe), it's disposable plastic that's the problem.
Disposable plastic isn't the problem. It's partly dumbshits who think plastic should be disposable, and other dumbshits who treat it like it is.
Having worked in the plastics industry.. it's weird how plastic is incredibly durable, unless you need it to be, in which case it degrades and breaks down almost immediately.. although that could be observation bias.
> or jump a few generations ahead and show a future federation.
Problem: The tech is already ridiculous. As of the recent movies, (set in TOS era!) they can beam anywhere without a star ship. They can resurrect the dead. We know in Kirk's time they develop planet-destroying weaponry and full AI. In Picard's era they have replicators and holodecks.
"Essentially, Google Home will do its best to alert owners to things they need to know..."
Things the owners think they need to know, or things Google thinks the owners need to know? There is so much potential for wrongness there, i hardly know where to begin. "Open the garage doors, HAL."
Perhaps they should work on actually getting autonomous vehicles out there, and even in the majority, before they start reconfiguring the intersections to accommodate them. Have you seen a lot of autonomous vehicles lately? I haven't. I thought I saw one this afternoon; turns out it was stolen and the driver was ducking down behind the dashboard to avoid being seen.
However, using that app (or something built into the car), it should be easy enough for a human to be involved. Yes, some stupid idiot will ignore it and wreck it for everyone, certainly early on. But hopefully the system can cope with that, maybe by having a backup set of traffic lights at the junction - just set them to red when traffic from that road shouldn't be moving, and green when it should.
So, "Stop, or I'll shout 'stop' again."? I'd like to know how the system would cope with drunk or sleep-deprived drivers. If it detects them and allows them through, people will start acting like they're drunk or sleep deprived, just to get right of way. Primates are weird when it comes to territorial matters.
So the guy who tries to speed through will be stopped at the light..
BE stopped? How? I'm imagining fifteen-inch-thick steel I-beams set at a 45-degree angle into the road, facing toward the traffic, that spring up in front of the vehicle, but I live in Frankston, and we tend to think like that.
Indeed. I'd like to see how well the simulation does with all of the traffic being autonomous and directed by the intersection controller.. then with, say, twenty-five percent of the cars being operated either by actual people or have the simulation take into account how people might react if there were cars weaving in and out of the intersection at whatever speed the controller thinks is safe. Then add cars driven by people who are texting, or eating fast food, or putting on makeup (either gender) or angry, or sleepy, or entitled adult-aged-children who think a car is a cross between a codpiece and a battering ram and who think right of way belongs to whoever doesn't make eye contact.
In addition the simulation should include collisions, and the inevitable results of collisions involving other cars whether they manage to stop in time or if they just slow down to rubberneck, including broken glass, explosions, and screaming victims. I don't think we're going to suddenly all start using autonomous vehicles on a certain date, and the people who insist on driving won't necessarily obey any directives sent by the intersection controller. tl;dr: "Good against remotes is one thing.. good against the living... that's something else."
Speaker-To-Animals said one thing more before he turned back to his table. "Louis Wu, I found your challenge verbose. In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap."
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Anderson really is a hack, and what they've done to Herbert's pretty majestic writing is a travesty.
THEY HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING to Frank Herbert's majestic writing. The original works stand, and Brian and what's-his-name are as entitled to write lame Dune fanfic packed with giant robot battles as anyone.
I'd sooner just read point form chronologies of what happened after Chapterhouse Dune or chronologies of the Butlerian Jihad than have to wade through acres of bad prose.
And that's why we have the Dune Encyclopedia, even if Frank Herbert said it wasn't canon.
Unfortunately, idiots like Skinheads have taken to Tolkien recently...
You're kidding, right?
"OI! Elberef' Gil'foniel!"
"YoY"? I understand they are happy with the result, but that is one of the strangest exclamations of joy I've ever heard, and I used to watch Ren and Stimpy. YoY!
(I know, it means "year over year", but I had to look it up.)
Australia (per capita), a country that faces a similar geographic situation.
Uh, no, it isn't. And no, it doesn't. Unless you mean "largest, geographically", and I'm guessing that'd be either Russia or China, depending on which territories they're claiming this week.
Most of what we do is thrown in the trash. With 115,000 employees MS can afford to do that.
I'd like to see an OS made entirely of all the things that were thrown out.
Why does the Sphinx have an African face?
It just looks that way, after a Sufi named Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr chiseled the nose off in 1378.
I'm almost certain that when I first read that article a few days ago, it said the coprocessor was named "Xenu". I remember thinking "Wow. The Scientologists aren't going to be happy about that."
I don't think it's going below $1000 again and certainly won't hit 500.
I'd like to hear your reasoning for this. As far as i can tell, the price of bitcoins is tied to emissions of neutrinos given off by the sun.
You blame the doctor. Then you lead the priestesses of Kubebe on a jihad against Richese and then on to destroy the thinking machines.
It's one of the Calebans from Frank Herbert's Consentiency stories, and she's about to reach orgasm.
Plastic has great utility (as long as it's safe), it's disposable plastic that's the problem.
Disposable plastic isn't the problem. It's partly dumbshits who think plastic should be disposable, and other dumbshits who treat it like it is.
Having worked in the plastics industry.. it's weird how plastic is incredibly durable, unless you need it to be, in which case it degrades and breaks down almost immediately.. although that could be observation bias.
No. People hate comic sans because it looks like a child's version of a font.
I'm seeing a lot of "Idiots misuse comic sans, therefore comic sans is bad."
Hitler was a vegetarian, you know.
Nostalgia. The same sort of feeling I get whenever I see a Tandy TRS-80.
> or jump a few generations ahead and show a future federation.
Problem: The tech is already ridiculous. As of the recent movies, (set in TOS era!) they can beam anywhere without a star ship. They can resurrect the dead. We know in Kirk's time they develop planet-destroying weaponry and full AI. In Picard's era they have replicators and holodecks.
A fix exists for that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
If it has english subtitles that's western enough for me, baka!
"Essentially, Google Home will do its best to alert owners to things they need to know..."
Things the owners think they need to know, or things Google thinks the owners need to know? There is so much potential for wrongness there, i hardly know where to begin. "Open the garage doors, HAL."
fingerprint sensor -> severed fingers
image a coupe of them dangling from a keychain.
There should be a new category.... Spoiler Trailer.
Troiler.
Waiting for someone to say "That's not what troilism is about."
Tackle the cause not the symptom.
Sounds good!
(destroys humanity and replaces it with robots)
But it's already in orbit.... That means a lot.
No, it means very little.
"Half-way to anywhere."
I didn't say send humans to Mars.
- attach boosters to the ISS and SEND IT TO MARS.
They do say that it's for autonomous vehicles...
Perhaps they should work on actually getting autonomous vehicles out there, and even in the majority, before they start reconfiguring the intersections to accommodate them. Have you seen a lot of autonomous vehicles lately? I haven't. I thought I saw one this afternoon; turns out it was stolen and the driver was ducking down behind the dashboard to avoid being seen.
However, using that app (or something built into the car), it should be easy enough for a human to be involved. Yes, some stupid idiot will ignore it and wreck it for everyone, certainly early on. But hopefully the system can cope with that, maybe by having a backup set of traffic lights at the junction - just set them to red when traffic from that road shouldn't be moving, and green when it should.
So, "Stop, or I'll shout 'stop' again."? I'd like to know how the system would cope with drunk or sleep-deprived drivers. If it detects them and allows them through, people will start acting like they're drunk or sleep deprived, just to get right of way. Primates are weird when it comes to territorial matters.
So the guy who tries to speed through will be stopped at the light..
BE stopped? How? I'm imagining fifteen-inch-thick steel I-beams set at a 45-degree angle into the road, facing toward the traffic, that spring up in front of the vehicle, but I live in Frankston, and we tend to think like that.
Indeed. I'd like to see how well the simulation does with all of the traffic being autonomous and directed by the intersection controller.. then with, say, twenty-five percent of the cars being operated either by actual people or have the simulation take into account how people might react if there were cars weaving in and out of the intersection at whatever speed the controller thinks is safe. Then add cars driven by people who are texting, or eating fast food, or putting on makeup (either gender) or angry, or sleepy, or entitled adult-aged-children who think a car is a cross between a codpiece and a battering ram and who think right of way belongs to whoever doesn't make eye contact.
In addition the simulation should include collisions, and the inevitable results of collisions involving other cars whether they manage to stop in time or if they just slow down to rubberneck, including broken glass, explosions, and screaming victims. I don't think we're going to suddenly all start using autonomous vehicles on a certain date, and the people who insist on driving won't necessarily obey any directives sent by the intersection controller. tl;dr: "Good against remotes is one thing.. good against the living... that's something else."
Speaker-To-Animals said one thing more before he turned back to his table. "Louis Wu, I found your challenge verbose. In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap."
"You scream and you leap," said Louis. "Great."