Interestingly enough, Hong Kong is almost entirely hills, and yet is not festooned with bare-foot bearded guys with shotguns guarding their moonshine stills, strumming banjos or contemplating their nearer relatives with a view to marriage.
Gamestop was dead to me when they stopped carrying vintage games.
Gods below, can you imagine what a nightmare it would be trying to support vintage games? I've never been in a Gamestop store before, so I don't know what their support policy is, but imagine trying to explain to someone why the copy of Quake I they bought won't run under Windows 10.
You have that right. Just as everyone has the right to choose to go elsewhere.
My humble prediction: some people will adopt it, people will avoid it, use will fall off and it will join the dustbunnies under the desk of computer standards.
hacking their John Deere tractors using firmware that's cracked in Easter Europe
Let's hope there are no Easter Eggs in there.
perhaps the tractors will make crop circles on the first of April? that'd be a cool-looking easter egg, although an annoying one if you couldn't get off the tractor while it was doing it.
(he's figured out how to create a stable wormhole to another dimension where the charge is much greater than our own (see, not creating energy from nothing, just stealing from someone else)... Whoops! Hope they don't come after me)...
i'd be more worried about the estate of Isaac Asimov coming after you.
The use of Google Glass on the factory floor is just the thin edge of the wedge.
Having a means of telling employees where things are would be useful. Having a means of tracking them, docking their pay if they're goofing off and providing evidence to fire them if they do it consistently would be even more useful, but you'd have to be pretty desperate to work there. Like the character in "Mana" was.
Having a means to give them an encouragement tasing when they step out of line or try to take off the glasses would be ideal.. for prisons, or secondary schools, perhaps.
I, too, would like to see more posts about programmable meat. I await the day we can encode instructions into a cell and have it turn nutrients and energy into something that resembles edible meat.
"... if we copy all the files from the windows 98 install disc.. AND the windows NT install disc.. onto the same machine.. then we can boot into Win98 OR NT! Pretty neat, huh? Can you make that happen?"
"er... not.. as.. such."
To be fair, he wasn't an IT manager; he was a wannabe biker who'd gotten the drinking and coming in late part down perfect. But he was in charge. Glad I don't work there any more.
I'm just amazed that TFA identified the Silicon Valley as a hot spot for this. In my experience, MOST C-level executives are psychopaths. It's part of the basic job description.
Has anyone failed a job interview because they DID pass the Voight-Kampff test?
"Hmm.. we could have all our politicians in little boxes... very handy, that..."
- Breughel, "Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future"
Mistah Kurz claims we have billions of AIs already. Where are they hiding? Or does he have a different standard for what he considers an AI than mine? I don't consider it an AI unless it can make jokes like a Culture Mind.
I would pay to see a good movie based on Nethack. They could make a whole string of them based on different play modes - straightforward, pacifist, and the classic "Blind Samurai Ascension".
Perhaps less lazy, than scared. Perhaps less scared than cautious. Why risk investors' money on an untried and possibly unsuccessful intellectual property when you can reboot a previously successful one and get the nostalgia crowd in there as well? Hollywood is principally a business, not an entertainment funnel - the entertainment is incidental.
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you're posting in the wrong place. you want https://boards.4chan.org/d/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Interestingly enough, Hong Kong is almost entirely hills, and yet is not festooned with bare-foot bearded guys with shotguns guarding their moonshine stills, strumming banjos or contemplating their nearer relatives with a view to marriage.
Gamestop was dead to me when they stopped carrying vintage games.
Gods below, can you imagine what a nightmare it would be trying to support vintage games? I've never been in a Gamestop store before, so I don't know what their support policy is, but imagine trying to explain to someone why the copy of Quake I they bought won't run under Windows 10.
Vintage games? that's what GoG is for.
They aren't opening a a dollar store, they are sending people in to one of the most hostile environments known to man.
"I'm not going up there!... send a droid."
You're right. You should take the budge of NASA AND the military and devote it towards more Spiderman and Batman films.
You are assuming that your thoughts are worth recording. A lot of people seem to think that.
Asimov was right.
My humble prediction: some people will adopt it, people will avoid it, use will fall off and it will join the dustbunnies under the desk of computer standards.
hacking their John Deere tractors using firmware that's cracked in Easter Europe
Let's hope there are no Easter Eggs in there.
perhaps the tractors will make crop circles on the first of April? that'd be a cool-looking easter egg, although an annoying one if you couldn't get off the tractor while it was doing it.
(he's figured out how to create a stable wormhole to another dimension where the charge is much greater than our own (see, not creating energy from nothing, just stealing from someone else)... Whoops! Hope they don't come after me)...
i'd be more worried about the estate of Isaac Asimov coming after you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Bitcoin is fundamentally impractical. It limps along ...
and it occasionally makes dazzling leaps into the air and then trips over itself, falls down and just lies there.
I did consider traveling by train from Melbourne to New York, but I wasn't able to get SCUBA certification in time.
Terence McKenna was certain it was going to be 2012.
The use of Google Glass on the factory floor is just the thin edge of the wedge.
Having a means of telling employees where things are would be useful. Having a means of tracking them, docking their pay if they're goofing off and providing evidence to fire them if they do it consistently would be even more useful, but you'd have to be pretty desperate to work there. Like the character in "Mana" was.
Having a means to give them an encouragement tasing when they step out of line or try to take off the glasses would be ideal.. for prisons, or secondary schools, perhaps.
Wish they had one for meaty programming topics.
I, too, would like to see more posts about programmable meat. I await the day we can encode instructions into a cell and have it turn nutrients and energy into something that resembles edible meat.
"er... not.. as.. such."
To be fair, he wasn't an IT manager; he was a wannabe biker who'd gotten the drinking and coming in late part down perfect. But he was in charge. Glad I don't work there any more.
I'm just amazed that TFA identified the Silicon Valley as a hot spot for this. In my experience, MOST C-level executives are psychopaths. It's part of the basic job description.
Has anyone failed a job interview because they DID pass the Voight-Kampff test?
Why not ban every podcast because they discriminate against the deaf?
Yes, we do have human-equivalent AIs, but they are also slightly dumber than a drunken pug.
Mistah Kurz claims we have billions of AIs already. Where are they hiding? Or does he have a different standard for what he considers an AI than mine? I don't consider it an AI unless it can make jokes like a Culture Mind.
I would pay to see a good movie based on Nethack. They could make a whole string of them based on different play modes - straightforward, pacifist, and the classic "Blind Samurai Ascension".
I guess I have a soft spot for anything with three arms.
O rly? Can I offer you some Idirans? They only have two arms, but three legs, and they're funny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_Phlebas
Please, somebody make a movie of this.
I think the problem is that there isn't an asshole shortage in Hollywood.
"That's the problem with Hollywood. Everyone has two pricks and three assholes. It's the genitalia hall of plenty."
- The Larry Sanders Show
Boy, is it ever incidental.