Where it gets really interesting is this: suppose that every basic need of every human being could be met. Would it happen? If it did happen, what would it mean for somebody to be wealthy? Or free for that matter?
Hmm, I think that what people think of as their 'basic needs' is ever expanding and I don't see it ever stopping, so I don't think we'll ever get to that situation!
It is a real incitement of the current system that this can still happen in this day and age. After all, Mission Impossible had the whole problem of off-site IT equipment solved decades ago with simple self-destruct technology.
Does anyone else find it ironic it that he most likely wrote this on a word processor or type writer, rather than the good old fashioned 'un-mechanised' way 'by hand' that he appears to be purporting as the correct method.
Are you suggesting he should have used the dehumanising technologies of pen and paper instead? Not to mention the written word. And language.
He should have restricted himself to grunts and spit really.
Sounds like they've got the layout right at your place, but I think in this article they are wanting to add to that. Maybe some FPS stuff would help - the lights flickering on and off and weird alien monsters leaping out and trying to kill you?
Favorite buzzword phrase: "free cloud-based hosting and streaming solution".
This is Microsoft angling for a chunk of the content delivery market by Deities. Rumour has it the second coming was going to be Flash based, but with this new technology it's all up in the air now.
Shouldn't be too hard to convert a regular optical mouse to do this. I think all you'd need was a hammer and some duct tape. But you could say that about most things I suppose.
replacing chocolate with cash
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replacing chocolate with cash
And he got that idea when he stopped trying to stay on his wife's good side and go for hookers instead.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode?
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Reviews of samples should stop talking about overclockability
Problem is, there isn't anything else interesting about this chip! The non-synthetic bechmarks are a couple of % up (or down in once case, but they say that's within the margin of error). Not that that's a criticism of thhe chip itself, they have to update their line.
This seems like a bad idea to me. People's faces look bad when illuminated from below (I guess because we're used to seeing them illuminated from above). That's why kids put a torches under their chins - it looks funny.
There's a lot of buzz in the World of Warcraft fan site universe this morning, with reports and rumors flying about fan sites being sold, about $1 million sale prices...
not quite as exciting as the slashdot headline I guess...
The article is pretty light on information, but hte discussion has a pretty thorough description of why this can't (AFAIK) be used to send information, including a link to the wikipedia topic. Maybe they have a way round that, but you can't tell from the article.
A security guard refused to let him off the elevator -- but he made crucial contacts which helped seal the deal 9 weeks later
Eh? Was the Secutiry Guard promoted to Head of Revenue Sharing in the intervening 9 weeks?
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I suppose you could get all your old peripherals a pour coffee in them, but I don't think that's really going to give you the same sense of frustration that you'd get with Vista.
I've been thinking about this, and I think if you poured coffee into all your old peripherals and flushed $120 down the toilet, you might get pretty close.
On the one hand I'd be really annoyed* if my ISP did this to me, on the other hand maybe there are some people who wold prefer ads and a cheaper monthly fee?
And on the third hand... isn't this going to break a whole bunch of websites? I'm having a hard time imagining how they could do it without major side effects.
(* I'd be wanting to stuff a few ads up their HTTP stream, I can tell you)
+4 funny? If my mother had mod points this would be +5 Insightful by now.
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...but how do you simulate the hardware incompatibilities? I suppose you could get all your old peripherals a pour coffee in them, but I don't think that's really going to give you the same sense of frustration that you'd get with Vista.
Slashdot Mirror
...am having a day of silence on the net.
It's not going so well so far... argg... must... stop... posting...
Good thing it doesn't have to work over as great a distance as a cell phone then. It's almost as it it was designed that way!
Yeah you irk 'em. Irk 'em good.
Another stroke of linux name/marketing genius.
Agreed. The article also mentions edubuntu... which is a bit of a better name I guess (worth a look too if you run linux and have kids).
Heh, I'm not sure how it got modded interesting... it was a joke!
Where it gets really interesting is this: suppose that every basic need of every human being could be met. Would it happen? If it did happen, what would it mean for somebody to be wealthy? Or free for that matter?
Hmm, I think that what people think of as their 'basic needs' is ever expanding and I don't see it ever stopping, so I don't think we'll ever get to that situation!
It is a real incitement of the current system that this can still happen in this day and age. After all, Mission Impossible had the whole problem of off-site IT equipment solved decades ago with simple self-destruct technology.
If the archaeologists had found some evidence of what distro they preferred.
Does anyone else find it ironic it that he most likely wrote this on a word processor or type writer, rather than the good old fashioned 'un-mechanised' way 'by hand' that he appears to be purporting as the correct method.
Are you suggesting he should have used the dehumanising technologies of pen and paper instead? Not to mention the written word. And language.
He should have restricted himself to grunts and spit really.
I think it would break it down to two possibilities: upper class those who can fix the robots or create new models, lower class those who cannot.
Or upper class who own the robots, lower class who do not.
Sounds like they've got the layout right at your place, but I think in this article they are wanting to add to that. Maybe some FPS stuff would help - the lights flickering on and off and weird alien monsters leaping out and trying to kill you?
Favorite buzzword phrase: "free cloud-based hosting and streaming solution".
This is Microsoft angling for a chunk of the content delivery market by Deities. Rumour has it the second coming was going to be Flash based, but with this new technology it's all up in the air now.
Shouldn't be too hard to convert a regular optical mouse to do this. I think all you'd need was a hammer and some duct tape. But you could say that about most things I suppose.
replacing chocolate with cash
And he got that idea when he stopped trying to stay on his wife's good side and go for hookers instead.
I should get out more.
Reviews of samples should stop talking about overclockability
Problem is, there isn't anything else interesting about this chip! The non-synthetic bechmarks are a couple of % up (or down in once case, but they say that's within the margin of error). Not that that's a criticism of thhe chip itself, they have to update their line.
This seems like a bad idea to me. People's faces look bad when illuminated from below (I guess because we're used to seeing them illuminated from above). That's why kids put a torches under their chins - it looks funny.
Now that would have made a good headline. It's directly from the article:
microchip-controlled Tickle Me Elmos will be transformed into unstoppable killing machines
(taken slightly out of context)
The rsit like of TFA:
There's a lot of buzz in the World of Warcraft fan site universe this morning, with reports and rumors flying about fan sites being sold, about $1 million sale prices...
not quite as exciting as the slashdot headline I guess...
The article is pretty light on information, but hte discussion has a pretty thorough description of why this can't (AFAIK) be used to send information, including a link to the wikipedia topic. Maybe they have a way round that, but you can't tell from the article.
A security guard refused to let him off the elevator -- but he made crucial contacts which helped seal the deal 9 weeks later
Eh? Was the Secutiry Guard promoted to Head of Revenue Sharing in the intervening 9 weeks?
I suppose you could get all your old peripherals a pour coffee in them, but I don't think that's really going to give you the same sense of frustration that you'd get with Vista.
I've been thinking about this, and I think if you poured coffee into all your old peripherals and flushed $120 down the toilet, you might get pretty close.
On the one hand I'd be really annoyed* if my ISP did this to me, on the other hand maybe there are some people who wold prefer ads and a cheaper monthly fee?
And on the third hand... isn't this going to break a whole bunch of websites? I'm having a hard time imagining how they could do it without major side effects.
(* I'd be wanting to stuff a few ads up their HTTP stream, I can tell you)
+4 funny? If my mother had mod points this would be +5 Insightful by now.
...but how do you simulate the hardware incompatibilities? I suppose you could get all your old peripherals a pour coffee in them, but I don't think that's really going to give you the same sense of frustration that you'd get with Vista.