Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Thinking Digital, in reply to BenWilson,
move over IBM here's DNA & E-Coli...
...do you really want to boot up a 100 year old operating system
Who knows we may be the computer by then!
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Calvin & Hobbes explain modern Capitalism
( from Daily Bail but found via whatreallyhappened ) -
Oleaginous Key logo...
Who did that?
Oily Key image is by the multi-talented Jody Lloyd (aka Trillion) - he also did the "Oil clot NZ 100% Pure" image that Sacha posted here 5 days ago, the Dom/Post used it also (I hope he got a credit for it)...
Though I'm sure he'd be very happy for you to reproduce and paste up or pass on, I've done similar poster runs for him in the past just to get ideas out there... -
caught in our devices...
Luckily Blackberries work across the solar system even when they don't! -
we, we, we will overcome...
Joe Bennett weighs in on the ABs...The balletic Jane had passed to the electric Dagg (which sounds like an agricultural device). Dagg set off upfield, leaving a litter of yellow jerseys writhing on the turf. He went with the pace and sizzle that comes only with youth. Somehow, one of the Aussies - though emphatically not the one with the snake-eyes - managed to take him down, but then the All Black bruiser boys, led by Brad I-don't-do-reverse Thorn, rumbled up like a tank division.
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more waving from the metaphorshore...
Metaphors to be collected in a huge repository by US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity:The Metaphor Program is divided into two phases, totaling 60 months, and is intended to begin in November 2011.
Understanding language is a hot topic amongst the government research folks. Last year you may recall, the military’s research folks at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said they wanted to know about how stories or narratives influence human behavior. To this end, DARPA hosted a workshop called “Stories, Neuroscience and Experimental Technologies (STORyNET): Analysis and Decomposition of Narratives in Security Contexts.”A great NLP forward?
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pumping irony...
A proper 'reasons not to elect' image for National at last...
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Hard News: Thinking Digital, in reply to BenWilson,
the oral data attrition…
The data storage medium is reasonably irrelevant if the data is being copied/backed up. If it isn’t, it won’t last 100 years.
I have several redundant ‘state-of-the-art’ back-up systems from the past 20 years, which should mean not only regular re-backing up and transferring to the ‘latest’ system but also adding to the current data being backed up (to be re-backed up) – when do we hit peak data storage overload?
CDs and machines can’t be relied on to last any great length of time or to operate in all (possibly changing) climates – power may well become an expensive commodity or unreliable, as we try to run the full gamut of proprietary systems available, and new ones burgeon – Babel 2.0 awaits… -
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"sounds like us"
That's the one I was trying to remember when the Bomber Bradbury thang happened - I noticed National Radio no longer uses that at all - probably replaced by the silent one (that only the dogs of war can hear) for the Panel - "Sounds just Right!"
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Bart Janssen,
meaty meta forwards...
you’ll need the special gnostic machine for that one you will …
if I try and fix it ’ere I’ll bugger it up fer sureAww c'mon ya must have a mate who could do it?
Bloody hydrophobes - it's a non-stick brain pan,
But I'm sure there's no Polytetrafluoroethylene in it...