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"You're obviously not in the pro audio world."

You obviously aren't either. Thunderbolt's way overkill for bandwidth requirements, and most onboard sound systems in a typical desktop handle proper mixer outputs and inputs just fine, with pretty much professional noise floors. I get more noise from my guitar amp and distortion pedal than I get recording the line-in with nothing attached/everything turned off.

Pretty easy setup. Added bonus, you can't infect through a line-in signal that I'm aware of!

They could strike like they do in Montreal by not wearing Standard issue uniforms.

http://i.imgur.com/ptO7EoX.gif

Stephanie is fat or homeley

Dear Coward, you fail at google.

Maybe he really *did* find out what she looks like, but considers her way below *his* standards...

https://i.imgur.com/sxMyVB7.jp...

twitter account in question, a_girl_irl participating in harassment and doxing and physical threats against a little kid. One of the other accounts involved with this was a somethingawful mod. Remember this when they claim they are against harassment and doxing. Btw, she is a 30-ish woman in NYC with a legal job, harassing little kids.

Funny how many people in gamergate are libertarian-left. I guess when something doesn't fit your narrative, it's always right wingers...except when you're wrong.

No, with something way more sophisticated.
http://i.imgur.com/I5nn8nx.jpg

the new Paramount logo.

Also, what Louie said:

http://imgur.com/gallery/shDmF...

Nothing like a reminder that you live in the future.

I know we've been talking about biomechatronics for decades, but Moore's Law and developments in nanomaterials are making things possible that were the stuff of science fiction just a few years ago. Simply put, we're starting to build amazingly large numbers of amazingly complex structures at amazingly small scales out of amazing materials, amazingly cheap.

Mind you, that's not new either; biology has been doing that for eons. Yet being able to manufacture it, to mass-produce biological or biocompatible materials like BCIs and prosthetic organs, is a remarkable and wholly new development. I fully expect the next half century will see a medical revolution that rivals the computer revolution of the last.

Just for clarification, this is a flying car: http://imgur.com/oMwa9Yp

Notice the car on the right. That's from a 1940 magazine writting about what 2011 would look like.

From a fashion perspective, they were wrong about the tutus but right about the yoga pants.

Looks like the Congress and the Senate were able figure out a good use for a giant vacuum tower - http://imgur.com/9Sbd5By

Nope.
Just for clarification, this is a flying car:
http://imgur.com/oMwa9Yp

Notice the car on the right. That's from a 1940 magazine writting about what 2011 would look like.
AS opposed to an Aerocar.
Also:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9vdT...

i click on 'nomorebennett' and it gives me the current story 1 item list -- http://i.imgur.com/lkt91ge.jpg
i dont know. i dont understand how that's even up there really.

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Take that capitalist scum!

"The problem is it will be abused. It will be used for things beyond the scope they claimed it will be."

And that's intentional. Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Science on reasoning, reason doesn't work the way we thought it did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democrac...
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-G...
http://www.amazon.com/National...

Look at the following graphs:

IMGUR link - http://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Free markets?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-I...

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

http://williamblum.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

From this post here are some interesting images.
The Damage. Those are new lines created by Greepeace. Notice the bright line to the left. That is where they drove their cars off the existing roads. I guess walking a bit is more important than preserving an international heritage site.
The Foorwear This is what they should have been wearing to visit the lines. It spread out the weight and causes less damage. They did the worst thing possible by walking in a line in regular shoes.

From this post here are some interesting images.
The Damage. Those are new lines created by Greepeace. Notice the bright line to the left. That is where they drove their cars off the existing roads. I guess walking a bit is more important than preserving an international heritage site.
The Foorwear This is what they should have been wearing to visit the lines. It spread out the weight and causes less damage. They did the worst thing possible by walking in a line in regular shoes.

From this post here are some interesting images.
The Damage. Those are new lines created by Greepeace. Notice the bright line to the left. That is where they drove their cars off the existing roads. I guess walking a bit is more important than preserving an international heritage site.
The Foorwear This is what they should have been wearing to visit the lines. It spread out the weight and causes less damage. They did the worst thing possible by walking in a line in regular shoes.

Here you go dude, NSFW, Lena's bodacious tatas!

http://imgur.com/zzjNyuf

Neither site is any good in Chrome 41 dev, the bpg javascript doesn't quite work right in that I guess, lol. http://imgur.com/JeVKI0A

Download at your own risk indeed. I was curious so I opened a VM with a fresh IE install (no Adblocking) and chose the download.com link for VLC.

Download.com is reputable enough anyway, right? Long history with cnet serving up shareware and all that?

http://i.imgur.com/l8n2ScB.png

WHICH OF THE DAMN DOWNLOAD BUTTONS OPENS ACTUALLY GETS ME VLC?!?!

Obviously I know, but my dad doesn't, and that's why I have no sympathy for online advertisers.

This will be surprising to you I'm sure, but it turns you actually *can't* walk outside in Buffalo, put a finger in the air, and say anything definitive about the weather in Tahiti or Dubai or Moscow or Los Angeles.

Pic related: http://i.imgur.com/lZ7C4nY.jpg

Maybe they should focus on reducing logging and fragmentation. I won't pay for such poorly written software again:

http://i.imgur.com/Ulem4sP.png

It was Back to the Future, Part II.

Computers be all racialist and shit, invented by the whites and Chinese to hold a brotha down.

Ceres thoughts on Pluto.

Not so sure...

I've been using a Chromebook for a while. I am a web developer. This particular machine does not have Crouton or a standard Linux distribution on it, just the stock OS. I would probably have opted for one of those, but this machine has a broken power button, which prevents it from being put into developer mode. So far I have not run into any insurmountable problems, and I think overall that it has been an improvement in my workflow.

Chrome OS has a number of useful features. The longest part of rebooting or updating the machine is waiting for your browser tabs to reload. You may say that this is uncommon and that you don't care how long it takes, but on the other hand no one will miss that wait time either. Having files backed up automatically is quite pleasant. If and when you are in the unfortunate position of having a machine die on you, sitting down to any Chromebook and typing in your password will restore your files, bookmarks, browser history, desktop background, and all installed programs in a couple minutes. The biggest downside is printing; it's possible if you have another computer or a Cloud Print ready printer (yeah right), but it's not fun under any circumstances.

Tips:

• Install Gmail Offline
• Enable offline editing of Docs
• Enable tap to drag
• These are kinda useful too.

Either Google Docs or Office Online do a pretty good job of handling office tasks, with one exception: neither will open a password-protected excel spreadsheet. For that I have been using RollApp, which does exactly what it says on the tin but is a bit slow. For web development, Chrome OS includes an SSH client. You don't need more than a VPS and vim, do you? You do? Well, in that case, you should be more than happy with Cloud9 Web-based IDE (Chrome Store link). You get your own little linux environment for each workspace, already set up for various development tasks. The editor is pretty similar to Sublime Text, and cloning projects from GitHub is fast and easy. You can also connect to a private VPS and do whatever crazy things you like there. Loading up a workspace restores all opened files and terminal windows, including any terminal programs/output. Run your tests, close the window, come back a week later, and the test output is still there. If you happened to be exploring something using a CLI interactive interpreter, that will still be running when you get back to it. Also, the workspaces are separate instances: developing locally I would always have to set up a new user, add it to the www-data group, set up its own fcgi pool, add an entry in /etc/hosts, and so on and so forth. Setting up lxc or nspawn containers makes this marginally easier. Letting your IDE handle it for you is brilliant.

Using a Chromebook does not mean giving up your ability to use (or create) complex software, but you will have to change your workflow. There is probably a fair amount of software that is not available on the web or even via SSH, but I think that most people's needs would be satisfied. I left my other Chromebook lying around the house for the roomies to use, and I don't think any of them noticed that it wasn't running Windows -- probably never used it for anything but web browsing. Your IT professional may need a XAMP stack, but he doesn't necessarily need it on a local machine, and there are some real advantages to not doing so, even if you skip the cloud-based IDE and just do a VM.

I have no connection to any company listed above except as a satisfied user.

Our CDN was unable to reach our servers

There are times when there is just isn't anybody else around to take the picture. (second photo).

The Endurance itself was large and heavy and full of fuel, requiring a large rocket to get to orbit.

The Ranger was a small, lightweight spaceplane which probably used something like a SABRE engine.

Here is a delta-V map of the solar system. According to it, you would need 6300 m/s delta-V to return to Earth from Mars. Which is about 2/3 the delta-V required to get to Earth orbit.

This kind of comment is deeply ignorant and anti-science. RelativWe have started using the properties of the EM spectrum for the bity is a description of the geometry of the universe. If you would rather believe in your own personal fantasies instead of one of the most well-supported theories in science, congratulations, you are yet another variety of religious loon.

Look, it's pretty simple. Science is not magic, and there is shit that it says that is for real-real not for play-play. We don't know what the future will look like in 2050 or 2100, but we can be completely sure of three things:

1) There will be no violation of the Laws of Thermodynamics.
2) Nothing (for all important values of nothing) will travel faster than the speed of light.
3) Commercial fusion power will still be 20 years out.

The first two are immutable laws of physics, the final one was proven by a Dr. M. T. Budget. Humor aside, relativity and thermodynamics have been proven at both the largest and smallest scales that humans have been able to observe, and at every level in between. They are not perfect theories, but they do place very hard and very real constraints on what kind of rabbits you can pull out of a given hat. You will not go to intergalactic space today, nor tomorrow, nor while anything recognizable as human exists.

Today's technology would look like magic for anyone living 300+ years ago. Most of the physics describing the universe today are theories and postulations supported by mathematical models that are theoretical in nature themselves. That is not the stablest platform from which to categorically rule out what is possible and what is not possible. The entirety of human existence is tiny and insignificant when compared to the age of the universe surrounding us. Human existence is tiny and just as insignificant when compared to the age of the planet we live on. It's a little early to start making definitive statements on what is possible and what is not impossible.

This kind of comment is deeply ignorant and anti-science. Relativity is a description of the geometry of the universe. If you would rather believe in your own personal fantasies instead of one of the most well-supported theories in science, congratulations, you are yet another variety of religious loon.

Look, it's pretty simple. Science is not magic, and there is shit that it says that is for real-real not for play-play. We don't know what the future will look like in 2050 or 2100, but we can be completely sure of three things:

1) There will be no violation of the Laws of Thermodynamics.
2) Nothing (for all important values of nothing) will travel faster than the speed of light.
3) Commercial fusion power will still be 20 years out.

The first two are immutable laws of physics, the final one was proven by a Dr. M. T. Budget. Humor aside, relativity and thermodynamics have been proven at both the largest and smallest scales that humans have been able to observe, and at every level in between. They are not perfect theories, but they do place very hard and very real constraints on what kind of rabbits you can pull out of a given hat. You will not go to intergalactic space today, nor tomorrow, nor while anything recognizable as human exists.

Not sure what kind of PC you have going on, but if it looks like this your wife it right.

Don't have a dedicated living room "gaming PC". Build a new system -- build an HTPC that has gaming-capable hardware.
  - Make sure the case fits in with a living room setting. Preferably a horizontal or cube-shape. Not a tower. Look at Silverstone's stuff.
  - You can have a large case if you need it -- as long as you can get it to fit with with existing home entertainment components.
  - Reduce the size if possible MiniITX or MicroATX at the largest.
  - ONE graphics card. No SLI/Crossfire. Time to let that go. The shorter the length the better, for helping control the overall system size.
  - NO LED FANS.
  - Get a case that is large enough for you needs, but as small as possible and still fit the components.
  - Don't buy a large case because you have multiple hard drives for content. Move that shit to a NAS somewhere else in the house.

https://i.imgur.com/rJ9q7Tj.jp...

I know you were joking, but I'd like to make the following point anyway:

How long until we have fusion power is not a function of time, but a function of investment.
Insufficient/deacreasing investment results in increasing the amount of time needed to complete the required R&D.

In fact a Q&A here on slashdot covered this. It even provided the following graphic as clarification of "50 years until fusion":

Right, because Marine engineers working for an energy company have never built something that could fail during adverse conditions right?
http://i.imgur.com/rUNFYnD.jpg

Maritime accidents will happen. It's not a matter of if you can prevent them, you can't. Marine environments are some of the most extreme environments on earth. This will fail... It's a question of what will happen once it does. Given their design, it wont be good.

https://imgur.com/gallery/fqsr...
https://imgur.com/gallery/2hxN...

https://imgur.com/gallery/fqsr...
https://imgur.com/gallery/2hxN...

What I do is use the UAControl addon for Firefox, which lets you specify a browser User Agent string on a per-site basis. This lets me tell Google that I'm actually using an old, outdated version on Firefox, and tada, Google always gives me the older, "simpler" version of their search results, which I find much much easier to use.

https://addons.mozilla.org/En-...

Settings:
Site: www.google.com
UA string: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.1

Search now looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/Yo3neuU.png
Nice and simple, the way it used to be.
Note the lack of ads - just use the AdBlock Plus addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en/...

http://i.imgur.com/IeUR8Zb.jpg

Sources are cited in the fine print. And then there's this:

http://www.consad.com/content/...

How about the fact men work more hours and more dangerous jobs?

http://i.imgur.com/IeUR8Zb.jpg

Exactly. If you really want to see why there's a pay gap, look at this:

http://i.imgur.com/IeUR8Zb.jpg

Men work more hours, more dangerous jobs, and so on. It's a no-brainer that IN THE AGGREGATE men make more money than women.

Even easier, Inspect Element (built in to virtually every web browser these days) and change the live HTML.

If people knew how easy it was to forge screenshots these days they'd stop believing everything that purports to be one.

Behold the latest missive from a frequent contributor!

Actually it's about equality.

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Actually it's about equality.

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Actually it's about equality.

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He's a scientist with a doctorate in physics.

That and $2 gets you a bus ride.

He might be a little bit of an attention whore too. Dude's got full-sleeve tattoos on both arms. Probably a Prince Albert on his junk. He thinks rules don't apply to him. On his big day in the media he decides to make it all about himself.

You ever see pictures of the guys who landed a team of astronauts on the moon almost half a century ago? They all wore white shirts and ties and you could barely tell them apart. Because they weren't hipsters narcissists. It was about TEAM, not getting 15 minutes of TMZ fame and making your colleagues look bad. .

By the way, women have been tweeting some pretty funny images of equivalent pictures of scantily-dressed and over-sexualized men that if those were worn by female scientists would have had some of you shitting all over the floor in fury. They're about the same as this now-famous pic of what it would look like if male characters' costumes for video games were designed the same way as women characters'.

Here you go: It's sort of NSFW, in the same way Euro-rocket hipster douchebag's shirt was NSFW: https://i.imgur.com/ofjksF0.jp...