It is our duty as citizens to follow the laws, to follow the moral contract made by our ancestors who founded the country and the sovereign people among which we live now
Agreed. Foundation (and all Asimov's work for that matter) is much too cerebral for general Hollywood audiences -which is a shame. A good example of this is the Asimov novel The Gods Themselves. I love how he steps outside the bounds of human experience to describe an alternate reality that is so foreign. But if not for various anthropology, sociology, and philosophy classes I took in college, a lot of the important subtleties would have gone unnoticed. I don't claim to be a super-genius or anything (just a regular one), but I can guarantee that 9 out of 10 moviegoers would ignore any 'good' Asimov movie, and of those that saw it, very few would get it.
That's your opinion, and I'll gladly accept it if you can explain how you would have squeezed the entire story into 12 hours more effectively than PJ did.
By possessing a smaller frontal cortex, the neanderthal would have had a lesser capacity for abstract thought. They would have *possibly* been better (i.e. faster) at autonomic behavior etc., but the frontal lobe is where we do our most creative thinking. This is what they lacked. I agree that 'smart' is a very arbitrary term, and that's why it was in quotes. I propose that we clone the thing and find out for sure.
Shorter, but yes, bigger. They also had larger brains. What they didn't have though was a larger frontal cortex. i.e. they were very likely not as 'smart' as homo sapiens.
Back in the late 80s I was using my DOS-based 286 to write improvised jazz programs in QBASIC. Although there was a 'random' component to it, it was randomly selecting notes from pre-determined jazz scales and putting them together in a way that sounded a lot like free-form jazz (the kind made of loud beeps anyway). Nobody submitted a story about me to Slashdot back then.
That's not fair. The UX50 had double the pixels & it could also be used in 'tablet' mode. On the other hand, it did not have the benefit of looking like an ugly black brick.
Let me rephrase. You have the right to complain, but you have no reason to expect anything to result from your complaints unless you are part of the majority. Also, if you are a significant Google shareholder, or if you purchase a service from them, then you can complain and expect your complaint to be heeded. Otherwise the lowest common denominator will always win out.
Yeah, just like there was no movie called "Malcolm IX". Spike Lee knew that the Land Before Time series was going to be getting into the higher numbers so he just had to preempt them.
Even if only a fraction choose the phone version, it's still a huge profit to AT&T. It's basically free money in the bank. They don't even have to spend anything on marketing to these kids. Their marginal infrastructure cost are virtually nil for new customers. I can see this model spreading like wildfire if schools allow it to.
I heard Scott McNealy speak last week. I asked about OOo in the context of team projects where everyone else is using Windows/Office. I wasn't given an answer. The problem with OOo is that it's best for 'home' users or people that don't collaborate at all. For individuals it's perfect, but you won't be asked to join any projects if everyone knows your documents will be full of weird margins and text sizes.
How much is Apple (or AT&T) paying said university to distribute these little profit-machines to these gullible students? Not that I wouldn't fall for it too, but honestly! I guess on the surface it's a win-win-win situation, but I can't help but think that someone is being taken advantage of.
I still have 2 stand-alone PDAs in addition to both my 160GB iPod Classic and my Palm Treo 755p. Each of them does things better than all the others. The Palm III's battery lasts for about a month, the Palm T|T3 has a very nice 480x320 screen, the iPod holds 40,000 songs, and the Treo is a phone.
Give me an open-code 160GB phone that has a 480x320 screen with batteries that last for a month, and I'll be happy to converge!
And yes, I also have 3 laptops. For that to change I'd need a computer that boots into 3 operating systems, has a 1920x1200 screen, and weighs 3 lbs.
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It has been obvious that this was going to happen ever since Icahn bought his board seat, and especially since he then got Yang fired.
Ballmer's misspeak a few weeks ago was another big clue.
Move along, nothing to see here.
i think that all forms of the art's should be free to all so i would have no problem at all just getting the e-book
The art's what? Come on, don't leave us hanging like that!
I was with you until you implied that stealing was 'wrong' without defining what 'wrong' means.
It is our duty as citizens to follow the laws, to follow the moral contract made by our ancestors who founded the country and the sovereign people among which we live now
You've apparently had too much USA Kool-Aid.
Agreed. Foundation (and all Asimov's work for that matter) is much too cerebral for general Hollywood audiences -which is a shame.
A good example of this is the Asimov novel The Gods Themselves. I love how he steps outside the bounds of human experience to describe an alternate reality that is so foreign. But if not for various anthropology, sociology, and philosophy classes I took in college, a lot of the important subtleties would have gone unnoticed.
I don't claim to be a super-genius or anything (just a regular one), but I can guarantee that 9 out of 10 moviegoers would ignore any 'good' Asimov movie, and of those that saw it, very few would get it.
What Jackson did with LOTR is just unexcuseable.
That's your opinion, and I'll gladly accept it if you can explain how you would have squeezed the entire story into 12 hours more effectively than PJ did.
By possessing a smaller frontal cortex, the neanderthal would have had a lesser capacity for abstract thought. They would have *possibly* been better (i.e. faster) at autonomic behavior etc., but the frontal lobe is where we do our most creative thinking. This is what they lacked. I agree that 'smart' is a very arbitrary term, and that's why it was in quotes. I propose that we clone the thing and find out for sure.
Shorter, but yes, bigger. They also had larger brains. What they didn't have though was a larger frontal cortex. i.e. they were very likely not as 'smart' as homo sapiens.
That's possibly how we killed them off last time. It's certainly not an issue that hasn't been touched. Don't you watch PBS?
Back in the late 80s I was using my DOS-based 286 to write improvised jazz programs in QBASIC. Although there was a 'random' component to it, it was randomly selecting notes from pre-determined jazz scales and putting them together in a way that sounded a lot like free-form jazz (the kind made of loud beeps anyway). Nobody submitted a story about me to Slashdot back then.
If it weren't for piracy, there'd be a sizable amount of people that would never even try Vista...
That's not fair. The UX50 had double the pixels & it could also be used in 'tablet' mode.
On the other hand, it did not have the benefit of looking like an ugly black brick.
My PHONE has 320x320 resolution, so uh, I think that settles it.
This is laughable.
Make sure to provide support for this!
Hey hey hey, you're forgetting that you can print on both sides of the paper!
2,500 sheets of paper is only like 2 feet high. What's the problem?
Let me rephrase.
You have the right to complain, but you have no reason to expect anything to result from your complaints unless you are part of the majority.
Also, if you are a significant Google shareholder, or if you purchase a service from them, then you can complain and expect your complaint to be heeded. Otherwise the lowest common denominator will always win out.
It's FREE.
Why do you think you have all this right to complain!?
If you hate cloud computing...
Get a copy of Dreamweaver and make your own home page.
Yeah, just like there was no movie called "Malcolm IX". Spike Lee knew that the Land Before Time series was going to be getting into the higher numbers so he just had to preempt them.
Even if only a fraction choose the phone version, it's still a huge profit to AT&T. It's basically free money in the bank. They don't even have to spend anything on marketing to these kids. Their marginal infrastructure cost are virtually nil for new customers. I can see this model spreading like wildfire if schools allow it to.
I heard Scott McNealy speak last week. I asked about OOo in the context of team projects where everyone else is using Windows/Office. I wasn't given an answer. The problem with OOo is that it's best for 'home' users or people that don't collaborate at all. For individuals it's perfect, but you won't be asked to join any projects if everyone knows your documents will be full of weird margins and text sizes.
How much is Apple (or AT&T) paying said university to distribute these little profit-machines to these gullible students? Not that I wouldn't fall for it too, but honestly! I guess on the surface it's a win-win-win situation, but I can't help but think that someone is being taken advantage of.
I still have 2 stand-alone PDAs in addition to both my 160GB iPod Classic and my Palm Treo 755p. Each of them does things better than all the others. The Palm III's battery lasts for about a month, the Palm T|T3 has a very nice 480x320 screen, the iPod holds 40,000 songs, and the Treo is a phone. Give me an open-code 160GB phone that has a 480x320 screen with batteries that last for a month, and I'll be happy to converge! And yes, I also have 3 laptops. For that to change I'd need a computer that boots into 3 operating systems, has a 1920x1200 screen, and weighs 3 lbs.
Firefox/Wine: "Error getting your position. Mea Culpa!" I give up. Have fun using this with windows.
This plug-in is simply not appropriate for slashdot. /off to try it under WINE