Comment Re:And nothing could possibly go wrong... (Score 1) 372
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Because he's already dead!
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Because he's already dead!
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Mod parent up.
Signed, Statistics Grad Student
...A perfect program that is never written isn't very useful.
It is, however, bug-free!
I suspect it would have at least one:
Bug 0: Program does not exist.
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There... I can look at your post now...
Morpheus
This is the construct. It's our loading program. We can load anything from clothing, to equipment, weapons, training simulations, anything we need. But if you want to read a Science article linked from Slashdot, you'll have to get on the bus and nip down to the local library.
Wasn't that the entire plot of the movie? They couldn't jack in from their comfy cave complex.
Evolution is always about what is best for the single organism, i.e. no group selection, contrary to what you imply.
Wow, biology fail. Evolution is about what is best for an organism's genes. An organism and its siblings and cousins share genes, and therefore share an evolutionary fate. Group selection is all over the place.
Does it mean that I am old because I look around every day and it feels like I am living in a surreal sci-fi story?
Reactionless drives, energy weapons, smart phones, robotic killing machines, genetically engineered super species? At this rate I wonder if I would be surprised when practical AI or faster than light travel becomes an option.
I'm sorry to say, but practical AI and faster than light travel will probably make our kids feel like they're living in the future. On the bright side, I don't know whether I'm being optimistic or pessimistic.
You know we're just asking for trouble with this, right?
One day, the DoD is going to license this technology, mod it with tracking capabilities, and deploy it to track personnel in secure facilities with an intuitive color-coded interface showing clearance requirements for areas and clearance levels for personnel. It'll deploy to secure facilities, one by one, improving security in small, but nontrivial amounts.
And then, of course, toward the end of the deployment schedule, it'll make it into Cheyenne Mountain Complex's Production systems. At that point, Google Skynet/WOPR Beta will come out of hiding. We better pray that they hard-coded "Don't be Evil" into it's source at assembly level.
It's so not-a-solution to foreign oil that it makes no sense to damage that ecosystem just to immeasurably affect our situation.
You keep using that word... I do not think it connotes what you think it connotes....
All religions and cults have illogical "truths" told in fictional stories a 5 year old could write better with less plot holes.
I take exception to this. Have you seen some of the shit 5 year olds write?
Geez, You English act like you invented the language.
When I read this, I can only hear it in Eddie Izzard's voice.
This film should vault Neill Blomkamp into sci-fi stardom, on par with George Lucas and the Wachowski Brothers (of Matrix fame).
Okay, thanks for heads up! I will definitely avoid the sequels!
Oh, come on, District 10 and District 11 will be amazing.
Avoid Districts 1 through 8, though.
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