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Geek Culture / The Future of Technology?

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wizard of id
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Posted: 26th Jan 2010 18:02
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Quote: "Normally smilies like and comments like "expert meteroite owning knowledge" are enough to demonstrate a lighthearted humorous comment. Oh well. "


Well since I have disabled pictures (limited bandwidth) I do not always see people joking or making sarcastic remarks....mhmh oops!

This is the second time this has happened.... Ah well.

"In my weird politically incorrect hypothetically incoherent contradicting obscured world definitively maybe"

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Fallout
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Posted: 26th Jan 2010 18:30
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Ok. I propose since you know your subject matter, and I do not, but I stubbornly stick to nuclear warheads, let's fight to the death to find out who's right!!!!! [intergalactic cowboy smiley]

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wizard of id
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Posted: 26th Jan 2010 18:36
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I would win hands down, I am pretty sure about that unless you bring me down to your level and beat me with experience.... *lame attempt smiley*

"In my weird politically incorrect hypothetically incoherent contradicting obscured world definitively maybe"

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Fallout
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Posted: 26th Jan 2010 20:04
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Ahh yes. The vicious experience stick!!

*Meanwhile Fallout attempts to determine which of our signatures is actually the most ridiculous*

See .... *action* ... is far less ambiguous!

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wizard of id
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Posted: 26th Jan 2010 20:35
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Quote: "Ahh yes. The vicious experience stick!! "
See I already won just by pointing that out...

warning completely off topic


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Shadowtroid
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Posted: 26th Jan 2010 23:56
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Actually, blowing it up would work, because the ones that do hit earth will burn up in the atmosphere.

So I win. Again.

"And we played the first thing that came to our heads...Just so happened to be... the best song in the world...

it was the best song in the world..."
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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 27th Jan 2010 02:03 Edited at: 27th Jan 2010 02:05
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Stumbled across this yesterday, thought it was relevant to this thread, and cool, a car that can drive itself being developed at carnegie mellon:
http://www.livescience.com/common/media/video/player.php?aid=33021

Hopefully this means in 20 years we can just sit back and sleep/work/read/whatever while our car drives us to the destination . (Not to mention the much lower death and injury rates from car accidents).


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Fallout
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Posted: 27th Jan 2010 10:12
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Hmmmm! Looks impressive, but I have a feel that, if it is at all fallible, it'll never be adopted. By that I mean, if there is any scenario at all, where it could result in a crash that a human could have avoided, then it won't be accepted.

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 27th Jan 2010 19:36
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Quote: "Hmmmm! Looks impressive, but I have a feel that, if it is at all fallible, it'll never be adopted. By that I mean, if there is any scenario at all, where it could result in a crash that a human could have avoided, then it won't be accepted."

Yeah, that might be the case, but you also have to take into account the lower fatalities than from people driving. For example, if computer error results in just 50 deaths and 5,000 injuries a year, while with people driving now, human error results in 6,000 deaths and 500,000 injuries a year (in America alone). So even though the computers might be perfect, it seems they have the potential to be much closer to perfect than people are .


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 27th Jan 2010 19:40
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On the subject of future technology - Apple just announced the iPad officially.



Predictable? Very.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 28th Jan 2010 01:15 Edited at: 28th Jan 2010 01:24
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I see no point moaning about it , no doubt there will be people willing to buy the product. If I had the disposable income I would buy little gadgets like that. Though it's probably be just a nice gimmick for my desktop, flick through photos, use the internet, watch a film, chuck on some tunes. I'd be just a little portable media center. Yes, a big iPod Touch essentially. But if I has the kind of money to throw away, it'd be a compliment to my desktop.

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lazerus
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Posted: 28th Jan 2010 01:24
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I wonder what it can do? I mean its potential other than being a neat toy...


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 28th Jan 2010 01:29
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I posted this 10-15 minutes before the proper iPad thread started. It'd probably be best to direct all discussion concerning it there instead.

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