I'd include earplugs. Future terminators will simply talk you to death with all the intellectual power available from youtube comments on the internet. You'll die of stupidity and boredom in no time.
I mean, the whole monotheism thing strongly suggests we ourselves are in a layer of simulation. So how real is virtual reality under those circumstances?
Reality doesn't sell. The criminal that *doesn't* get caught. The thousands that make it home safely and without incident. The annoying people whare are merely crude. Nothing exciting there.
Politically/Economically, mainstream media is owned by just a few large companies. The owners and board members of those companies sit on the boards of banks, finance companies, oil companies. Many are in government in the USA and elsewhere.
So the message you get from mainstream media will be whatever serves *their* interests, not yours. You get "Dancing with the stars" instead of muckraking documentaries. Daniel Ellsburg and Woodward and Bernstein would simply have been fired and/or whacked today. If you want unbiased truths, you have to go to blogs and bloggers. The mortgage doc scandal would probably never have come out but for that.
As vile, crude and idiotic as some of the comments are, they are *real* comments that tell us what people really think. Attempts to "moderate" them are just another attempt to pander to an already infantilized readership and insulate us all from who and what is really out there. Feh. I would rather know the ugly reality than the bland sanitized lying pablum the mainstream media would force down all our throats if they could.
We already have a working plasma reactor, placed approximately 93,000,000 miles away for safety reasons. You can see it if you look East in the morning. I know! Why not just... use THAT one!
This isn't exclusively a Microsoft phenomena. I use VMWare ESX 3.5i. Every new ESX version seems to get a little worse and causes me a a few more problems. I actually had to virtualize the latest virtual machine client application in a Windows XP environment in order to get it to work on Windows 7.
As an aside, things seem to have gotten *worse* since "Agile" got popular. Is there a connection or is it just me?
Unelected, uncontrolled and accountable to nobody. Until the influence of the wealthy worldwide is curtailed, nothing will change. We have met the enemy and he looks a lot like Bill Gates or the King of Saudi Arabia.
Unless you've lived in rural New Mexico, Nevada, Utah or Arizona, you don't know how useless a 100 mile range maximum can be. 100 miles out of almost anywhere in southern New Mexico leaves you stranded in the desert if you're not on a major highway. Recharging opportunities are bit sparse too.
a successful strategy to manipulate the entire stock market, then yes, I'm sure it was an "algorithm" that caused the problem. Now the algorithms can get down to business by creating several small unnoticeable dips during the day which can be exploited for a tidy, sustainable profit.
Sadly, I can top that story. I used to work for a government contractor that took blueprints and had them redrawn in AutoCAD in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Our main client was Los Alamos National Labs. We sent them the blueprints for almost every building there.
Fox news is "balanced" the way a teeter-totter with only one child is "balanced." Look, Fox "news" only makes sense if your reality-distortion field has an extra battery pack or two. Try pulling your head out of your ass and reading the news from Canada, Great Britain, or hell, anything outside of the USA. They've got this new internet-thingy now. Give it a whirl, why doncha?
You're telling me that encryption doesn't follow zipf's law? Sorry if this is a naive question, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how it wouldn't.
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I'd include earplugs. Future terminators will simply talk you to death with all the intellectual power available from youtube comments on the internet. You'll die of stupidity and boredom in no time.
My super ability is to be able to read the minds of earthworms. I think I'm in no danger of super-villainy.
I mean, the whole monotheism thing strongly suggests we ourselves are in a layer of simulation. So how real is virtual reality under those circumstances?
Works for me.
I've been hoping for that for years.
Two reasons. One obvious. One Subtle.
Reality doesn't sell. The criminal that *doesn't* get caught. The thousands that make it home safely and without incident. The annoying people whare are merely crude. Nothing exciting there.
Politically/Economically, mainstream media is owned by just a few large companies. The owners and board members of those companies sit on the boards of banks, finance companies, oil companies. Many are in government in the USA and elsewhere.
So the message you get from mainstream media will be whatever serves *their* interests, not yours. You get "Dancing with the stars" instead of muckraking documentaries. Daniel Ellsburg and Woodward and Bernstein would simply have been fired and/or whacked today. If you want unbiased truths, you have to go to blogs and bloggers. The mortgage doc scandal would probably never have come out but for that.
As vile, crude and idiotic as some of the comments are, they are *real* comments that tell us what people really think. Attempts to "moderate" them are just another attempt to pander to an already infantilized readership and insulate us all from who and what is really out there. Feh. I would rather know the ugly reality than the bland sanitized lying pablum the mainstream media would force down all our throats if they could.
We already have a working plasma reactor, placed approximately 93,000,000 miles away for safety reasons. You can see it if you look East in the morning. I know! Why not just... use THAT one!
Newer != Better.
This isn't exclusively a Microsoft phenomena. I use VMWare ESX 3.5i. Every new ESX version seems to get a little worse and causes me a a few more problems. I actually had to virtualize the latest virtual machine client application in a Windows XP environment in order to get it to work on Windows 7.
As an aside, things seem to have gotten *worse* since "Agile" got popular. Is there a connection or is it just me?
Unelected, uncontrolled and accountable to nobody. Until the influence of the wealthy worldwide is curtailed, nothing will change. We have met the enemy and he looks a lot like Bill Gates or the King of Saudi Arabia.
Unless you've lived in rural New Mexico, Nevada, Utah or Arizona, you don't know how useless a 100 mile range maximum can be. 100 miles out of almost anywhere in southern New Mexico leaves you stranded in the desert if you're not on a major highway. Recharging opportunities are bit sparse too.
a successful strategy to manipulate the entire stock market, then yes, I'm sure it was an "algorithm" that caused the problem. Now the algorithms can get down to business by creating several small unnoticeable dips during the day which can be exploited for a tidy, sustainable profit.
Cheers!
Again (png), and again (jpg), and again and again.... Please, won't somebody think of the pixels?!
The characters finally become at least 2-dimensional?
I'm kind of looking forward to it.
My superpower is to be able to read the minds of earthworms. Here's a sample: "Dirt. Dirt. Dirt. Mmm. Dirt. Oh, shit! Dirt. Dirt. Dirt.....
The gals love it.
Sadly, I can top that story. I used to work for a government contractor that took blueprints and had them redrawn in AutoCAD in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Our main client was Los Alamos National Labs. We sent them the blueprints for almost every building there.
1) US creates military drones used in Pakistan.
2) Drones are controlled using software.
3) Software company that writes drone software is bought by IBM.
4) Software can now, potentially, be outsourced to IBM development personnel in um, Pakistan.
Is it just me, or is something wrong with this picture?
Your bastion of security and reliability.
Two words. "Aim higher"
Fox news is "balanced" the way a teeter-totter with only one child is "balanced." Look, Fox "news" only makes sense if your reality-distortion field has an extra battery pack or two. Try pulling your head out of your ass and reading the news from Canada, Great Britain, or hell, anything outside of the USA. They've got this new internet-thingy now. Give it a whirl, why doncha?
You're telling me that encryption doesn't follow zipf's law? Sorry if this is a naive question, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how it wouldn't.
To be tossed in the same boxes as "may lead to a cure for obesity" or "may lead to breakthrough in cancer treatment."
Wake me when I can buy it at Wal-Mart, and if there's a penny stock or investment opportunity, I'm not interested.
cheesy overlords? No. No! I did NOT mean Christine O'Donnell. Really.
...remind me again why I would ever care about a Windows phone which is about as likely to succeed as the Zune?