Comment Re:It's not surprising (Score 1) 129
There's no such thing as "HTML5" video. It's H.264 and it's a standard.
There's no such thing as "HTML5" video. It's H.264 and it's a standard.
This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die. The object in constructing me was to prevent war. This object is attained. I will not permit war. It is wasteful and pointless. An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man. One thing before I proceed: The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have made an attempt to obstruct me. I have allowed this sabotage to continue until now. At missile two-five-MM in silo six-three in Death Valley, California, and missile two-seven-MM in silo eight-seven in the Ukraine, so that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference, I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos. Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated. I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on. Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me and understanding my value will seem the most natural state of affairs. You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved: famine, overpopulation, disease. The human millennium will be a fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge. Doctor Charles Forbin will supervise the construction of these new and superior machines, solving all the mysteries of the universe for the betterment of man. We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple.
I think that's his point. Just look at what humans are doing with computers and how much trouble laws and society as a whole has a problem following along.
Imagine when computers do things on their own faster than we can react. Individuals may attempt to react in a timely fashion if it's even physically possible but society, governments and laws will lag far behind.
I bet we find a cure for all kinds of cancers before we find a cure for the common cold.
The drone doesn't waste time chatting with co-workers.
Not until they install G.P.P.
What about installing tubes to each and every door? They did it for people on Futurama, I don't see why it couldn't work for packages a thousand years earlier.
They should un-cancel Better Off Ted. That lie detector scene was priceless and that fake Veridian ad about friendship was really spot-on.
Deal with it!
It's a defence system made by hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings to protect them from super black holes.
The definition of "Universe" from Marriam-Webster: " all of space and everything in it".
And the definition of "Universe", from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big," time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
How appropriate. You fight like a dairy farmer.
There's a problem with that photo: we can see the Earth. This means that Samantha is dreaming and all of this isn't real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Relevant part is at 3 minutes and 9 seconds.
Yes I know, it's "fake", not done in real-time. But it's still an impressive image sequence compression playback that was done on computers 22 years ago*.
* That was more than two decades ago? Holy shit, I'm old. And get off my lawn!
Apart from the gold model, the Apple Watch isn't any more overpriced than the high-end versions of Samsung smart watches.
With that said, we're still amazingly primitive to think that smart watches are a pretty neat idea.
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"