Well, family should respect the wishes of their deceased. So if Crick or his widow wouldn't have cared if it was sold, fine. But remember this is a very very prestigious scientific award, and was most likely valued very highly by Crick and his wife (note they never sold it but instead passed it down to their kids). I suspect that Crick would sort of be rolling around in his grave from this which makes it, not wrong, but bad karma for sure. These are the kinds of family heirlooms that are impossible to replace, come around once every few hundred years, and add a really cool sense of heritage and pride for following generations in the family. Personally I would rather have grandpa's NOBEL FUCKING PRIZE on my mantel than some bullshit car or boat in the driveway... If nothing else, it would make a really cool conversation piece.
He claims to love Linux, but what he really loves is himself.
Or maybe he's just passionate about maintaining the integrity of his creation.. We'll see how you do when you write an operating system that revolutionizes the computing world...
"If people were influenced by video games, a majority of Facebook users would be farmers by now"
Idiotic statement. A) We're not talking about farming, and B) just because everyone had not transformed into a farmer does not mean people are not influenced by those games, and C) farming and killing (in games) most likely stimulate completely different parts of the brain. You're comparing apples to pineapples. Yes, they sound similar but are mostly different. Every single thing you see or do has an influence on you at some level.
I've been playing a game called Robot Rising on Facebook which is pretty good. Sort of an action RPG with robots, Diablo style, and free to play... You can play through a level in 5-10 minutes. One caveat, it requires the Unity plugin, which isn't a big deal for me because I already had it installed, but some people don't like plugins...
I think something a little more RISCy might be a better choice for a modern class, but ultimately the principles are the same. We're seeing less and less job candidates with any ASM skills at all nowadays which is a little sad. I would take 8086 over nothing any day...
He's not asking for the right to get the parts, he's asking people to boycott those companies until they provide the parts willfully. This is purely a consumer-side action, nothing litigious. IMO this is the right approach to such problems.
As time goes on, invention requires more advanced equipment, more investment, more education.
Not necessarily. It might just require a brilliant momentary insight or epiphany, or even just lateral thinking. Humans can only imagine things that are composed of other things they have already experienced, but that set of experiences is so vast that finding the right combination of ideas that leads to a useful new invention/discovery is extremely rare. However, really it's within reach of just about anyone whose brain happens to think about the right thing at the right time. I guess it sorta depends on what you consider an invention. I can glue some shit together and "invent" something that nobody has ever seen before, so it's technically an invention, but probably has no real usefulness to anyone.
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Wartal?
Imagine what will happen when the robosparrows and roborats join forces against humanity
Well, family should respect the wishes of their deceased. So if Crick or his widow wouldn't have cared if it was sold, fine. But remember this is a very very prestigious scientific award, and was most likely valued very highly by Crick and his wife (note they never sold it but instead passed it down to their kids). I suspect that Crick would sort of be rolling around in his grave from this which makes it, not wrong, but bad karma for sure. These are the kinds of family heirlooms that are impossible to replace, come around once every few hundred years, and add a really cool sense of heritage and pride for following generations in the family. Personally I would rather have grandpa's NOBEL FUCKING PRIZE on my mantel than some bullshit car or boat in the driveway... If nothing else, it would make a really cool conversation piece.
fuck my life, i want to record my dreams
Why is the Wii considered a kids console?
Because that's the easiest cheapshot for Under30-something PS3 fanboys to articulate.
He claims to love Linux, but what he really loves is himself.
Or maybe he's just passionate about maintaining the integrity of his creation.. We'll see how you do when you write an operating system that revolutionizes the computing world...
I've been drinking horse blood to increase my penis size for a year now. Should I be worried??
Maybe he meant the United States Power Squadrons
They are mortal enemies
There are hundreds of people who never left the mandatory exclusion zone around Chrenobyl who are doing just fine almost 30 years later.
That's only because they can use their tentacle to harvest fish from the river
In Sao Paolo they banned billboard advertising. Business wasn't damaged at all.
Except the billboard makers/installers
What the hell are these ivy league lawschool graduates being taught that makes them think like this?
They're being taught that you will get money from lobbyists by taking extreme positions...
let's just sit around complacently and wait for the next 9/11.
We've had a 9/11 every year since the dawn of the Gregorian calendar, and so far only one of those has been bad...
It's not much fun anymore because we already exterminated all the indians. It's just cowboys vs cowboys now...
"If people were influenced by video games, a majority of Facebook users would be farmers by now"
Idiotic statement. A) We're not talking about farming, and B) just because everyone had not transformed into a farmer does not mean people are not influenced by those games, and C) farming and killing (in games) most likely stimulate completely different parts of the brain. You're comparing apples to pineapples. Yes, they sound similar but are mostly different. Every single thing you see or do has an influence on you at some level.
Well you can't run a gasoline engine without electricity, so there you go... 100% electric.
Within the next 10 years or so I am sure you will see many more solar powered homes.
That's what they said 10 years ago. Just sayin...
That's only because he didn't circle around the parking lot until the battery was drained. That is the proper procedure as we all know...
How in the name of Holy Fuck do you drive 125mph for 125 miles while having two epileptic seizures and not crash?
Suicide
I've been playing a game called Robot Rising on Facebook which is pretty good. Sort of an action RPG with robots, Diablo style, and free to play... You can play through a level in 5-10 minutes. One caveat, it requires the Unity plugin, which isn't a big deal for me because I already had it installed, but some people don't like plugins...
How hard is it to copy a file to a webserver?
Considering the idiotic bureaucracy of some college IT depts, it might be pretty hard indeed...
I think something a little more RISCy might be a better choice for a modern class, but ultimately the principles are the same. We're seeing less and less job candidates with any ASM skills at all nowadays which is a little sad. I would take 8086 over nothing any day...
I would like to know what they plan to do about that.
They'll probably stop delivering on the other days of the week also. That would save another $10billion...
He's not asking for the right to get the parts, he's asking people to boycott those companies until they provide the parts willfully. This is purely a consumer-side action, nothing litigious. IMO this is the right approach to such problems.
As time goes on, invention requires more advanced equipment, more investment, more education.
Not necessarily. It might just require a brilliant momentary insight or epiphany, or even just lateral thinking. Humans can only imagine things that are composed of other things they have already experienced, but that set of experiences is so vast that finding the right combination of ideas that leads to a useful new invention/discovery is extremely rare. However, really it's within reach of just about anyone whose brain happens to think about the right thing at the right time. I guess it sorta depends on what you consider an invention. I can glue some shit together and "invent" something that nobody has ever seen before, so it's technically an invention, but probably has no real usefulness to anyone.