metadigital

Ad hominem inductive fallacy argumentum ad metum / argumentum in terrorem argumentum ad ignorantiam argumentum ad baculum probably a bit of: suppressed correlative False Dichotomy dicto simpliciter (both types) Ignoratio elenchi.

Well, I won't know the answer to that until I start his State of Fear (as I haven't read any of his stuff previously). I will say one thing for him, though, from the time he wrote The Andromeda Strain he has had a knack for topical prose.

I never know what to think when it turns out the future's actually already here. The stuff Jim's talking about sounds pretty safe, though. Couldn't that be taken a step further, like having a "password" of sorts where you'd scan a very specified part of your hand as well to make it even more difficult to crack? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes. That is called multifactor authentication. A bank debit card is an example of two factor authentication.

But can he catch a bullet fired from a pistol in his mouth? Eh?

IBM have had biometric-restricted (read: fingerprint scanners) access to their laptops for a few years now.

No, that is just a case of a stupid non-scientific artist trying to write science.

Shhhh!

The death of English was preceded by the breathtakingly amazing idea by the weirdo hippies in the seventies that the whole language learning process needed to be revamped (not a bad idea in and of itself) by the removal of grammar and general sentence awareness/analysis from the syllabus (moronic). Add to this making languages (especially latin) elective, and the myopic and parochial view that English is/was THE dominant global language, and you see the result today. (Aside: English is the de facto language of science, currently, though, say, mathematics is a language unto itself.) I am not particularly concerned. The Spanish of meso-America is already diverging from the Iberian Peninsula, just as the English spoken in Singapore and German in Switzerland are diverging from their cognate forebears (as they must): nothing is constant except change. Just as the language of ancient Latium has diverged into modern French, Spanish, Portuguese and (with a broad Germanic base) English. Chinese is also an umbrella group of about 6-12 regional dialects, too, not to mention the similarity between the double-byte character sets. That actually represents an interesting creative tension: the incompatible alphabetical versus pictographical underpinnings (also Arabic is similar, too ... and there is a strong and growing user base there, too).

Rocky Balboa

Sounds like a bit of race-hate propaganda to me, based on conjecture: not much better than a spam chain letter.

Evidently there aren't as many wanting "in on that fat-money-cake known as The Gaming Industry" as you thought ...

Anyone seen A Scanner, Darkly? I was thinking of seeing it (based on a Philip K Dιck novel, good actors) but the plot sounds kinda lame.

Yes. And no. Yes I would, but No, I wouldn't need to, because I wouldn't have posted it.

Is that Joe Pantoliano?

That video looks pretty impressive, I must say. (I must.)

An small LAN of 286s, multiplexed together! Now I do. Actually, I did, but I didn't notice it as much until you mentioned it.

Spilt from: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=43613 Who is Skeeter again?

Yeah, maybe the quad-core CPUs might make the PPU obsolete ... then again the PPU has to fight for PCI-e bandwidth: it might be a better performer if it were in a PCI-e(16). Anyways, I think it is still too early to write the epitaph; who knows, AMD-ATi might buy Aegis, too, and make a killer daughterboard ...

My word that is a particulary biased and misinformed opinion.

As long as the point was to poke fun at all the overuse of Wolverines. Why is this character so popular, I wonder?

If it were an advert, you would have deleted it yourself, right? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's a free product.

Love is a serious mental disease. Plato (428-348BCE)

He never does.