Comment: Watch out for that tree! (Score 1) 33
Watch out for thatOOOHtreeeee!
+ - Atomic Comics: Comic books and the atomc education of America->
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Lasrick writes "Great review of the book "Atomic Comics." Includes wonderful old illustrations from Atomic Rabbit, Atoman, Buck Rogers, True Comics, Whiz Comics, etc. Here's a quote: "Still, the comics had been dealing with atomic beams, weapons, and propulsion through most of the war, and if these comic strips and books were wrong about the details, Szasz notes, "the fact that the American public instantly grasped the basic outlines of the atomic age almost surely has its roots in the larger-than-life adventures of Superman, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, and Mickey Mouse, and well as other long-forgotten characters from that 'loose and baggy creature' of American popular culture."""
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+ - Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two to Six Millennia Ago-> 1
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eldavojohn writes "Professor Gerald "Jerry" Crabtree of Stanford's Crabtree Laboratory published a paper (PDF warning) that has appeared in two parts in "Trends in Genetics." The paper opens with a very controversial suggestion, 'I would be willing to wager that if an average citizen from Athens of 1000 BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions' and from there speculates we're on the decline of human intelligence and we have been for at least a couple millennia. His argument seems to suggest that agriculture and, following from that, cities have allowed us to break free of such environmental forces on competitive genetic mutations — a la Mike Judge's theory. However, the conclusion of the paper urges humans to keep calm and carry on as any attempt to fix this genetic trend would almost certainly be futile and disturbing."
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Comment: Re:$85000 camera? (Score 1) 75
Because people have no sense of history.
Instagram isn't (necessarily) cross-processing. Most of the effects just make photos look as if you've stored them in sunlight for a few years. Photos back then didn't look like that - they were a bit grainier than what we expect now, but they certainly didn't look washed out.
Comment: Re:Don't they test these things before deploying?? (Score 1) 245
Android rootkits, too, have been flagged (on windows) for a long time because "it's malware from a software/hardware manufacturer's point of view".
Comment: And what happened to Icarus? (Score 1) 299
Someone missed a few fine points when the read the Cliffs Notes for Greek Myth.
Comment: Re:I will sell you this solution already debugged! (Score 1) 167
So says the guy with the seven-digit account number.
Korean Artist's Intentionally Useless Satellite To Launch This December 151
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from the hey-it-beats-working dept.
from the hey-it-beats-working dept.
An anonymous reader quotes the introduction to Inhabit's article on the upcoming launch of an art project cum satellite intended to be as different as possible from conventional space hardware: "South Korean artist Song Hojun has created his own DIY satellite from scratch – and he's planning to launch it into space this coming December. Song created the satellite from assorted junk he found in back-alley electronics stores in his home town of Seoul, and over the course of six years he has finally managed to complete his space-bound project. Song's satellite cost just over $400 to make, however the cost of launching it to space is going to be a lot, lot more – over $100,000."
Comment: Re:The most used ten chords (Score 4, Funny) 576
Route learning? "First play this, walk to the center of the stage, play that, kneel, play the other thing, stand up, go back to the bassist and play this again."
Or do you mean "rote learning"?
Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission 220
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Unknown Lamer
from the what-a-twist dept.
from the what-a-twist dept.
zacharye writes "Oh, the irony. A musicians' rights group in the Netherlands was fined this week for stealing music from a client, using it without his permission and failing to pay royalties. Music royalty collection agency Buma/Stemra approached Dutch musician Melchior Rietveldt in 2006 and asked him to create a composition that would be used in an anti-piracy advertisement, which the group said would be shown exclusively at a local film festival. One year later, Rietveldt purchased a Harry Potter DVD only to find that his piece was being used on DVDs around the world without his permission..."
Comment: Re:No (Score 5, Funny) 557
Pounds Sterling.
Fucking limey.
Comment: Re:Inertia (Score 1) 557
Just tell your computer it's a US keyboard and touch-type. You can touch-type, can't you?
Comment: Re:Titan is becoming a more amazing world (Score 1) 45
All the elements for the latter are in place, except for private ownership of printed material. However, if no-one reads them, then it really doesn't matter what they say.
As to being about to get humans out of Terra's g-field...sigh. And Hard AI is so much harder than what anyone had imagined. And is much harder than what the Transhumanists and Singularists could possibly imagine.
Comment: Re:Titan is becoming a more amazing world (Score 5, Interesting) 45
Read and watch "2001: A Space Odyssey". (The book and the movie were developed simultaneously and you really need one to fully understand the other. I'd read the book first.) Then read "2010: Odyssey Two". Both written by Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Psychedelics optional where permitted by law, sitter who knows and loves the story highly advised.
Comment: Re:Titan is becoming a more amazing world (Score 2, Funny) 45
Except Europa ... Attempt No Landings There.