Has it? As I understand it, the mechanism of the acceleration of the universes expansion isn't explained. If that acceleration disappears, then surely we'll have a big crunch. No?
The idea of "location" with regard to the singularity is a question with no real sensical answer, unfortunately. It's a bit like asking "where is the center of the Earth's surface?"
That's easy. 0 degrees latitude, 0 degrees longitude. Looks to be somewhere around the Gulf of Guinea.
I like the UI too. It's pretty neat for what it's for...tablets and phones. However, I use a mouse and full size keyboard and two monitors at work. I use all the hotkeys, use alt-tabbing, use the function keys, and flip between perhaps 10 - 20 windows in a typical day. I don't need a tablet UI for this, I need a desktop UI. In short, Windows 8 decreases my productivity.
There are actualy several fundimental reasons to return to the moon, not the least of which being the establishment of a launch platform there that could ease exploration of deeper space.
I think this is ultimately futile in the near term. The only thing we should be doing on the moon right now is figuring out how to get robots to semi-autonomously manufacture habitats and simple materials from local resources. We simply can't afford to bring all that stuff with us. We should be trying to figure out how to live off the land out there. Sending a bunch of robots to build our habitats in advance is the only practical way we put people in space until some cheaper way to get a lot of mass into orbit is devised. Chemical rockets just aren't efficient enough to do the job.
And the market will show that the vast majority of gamers could not care less whether an Internet connection is required or not, so long as the game is fun. And since game development is all shifting towards multi-player anyway, with only token efforts being made for the lonely solo console players,
I'll never forget when I was in the SW:G beta. My wife asked me one day how I felt the game was coming along. I replied that it still had 6, maybe 8 months to go, and how it would be wonderful if the devs were given as much as 11 months. The very next morning I had an email from SOE/LucasArts letting me know that it was going retail in two weeks. It was a true "WTF?!" moment, and we all know how things turned out for SW:G.
Yeah. They had a nice steady user base and then decided to screw everyone over with the NGE. It wasn't the early release that killed it, it was the NGE.
It seems to me that the people who actually need to be targeted are the middle aged and older people who are in control of the votes and money needed to revitalise the space programs.
It's also nearly impossible to change the opinions of middle aged and older people.
I don't give a shit about your right to go out to a shooting range with your gun fetish and hit fake targets.
It's not a right to have access to some recreational activity. It's about the right to have access to the tools to protect yourself, your family, and if need be, your society.
The point is that nearly all jobs of the future will require programming ability.... In the future, those kinds of specialized software will be written by people with domain training/expertise
This is such crap. You're just talking about flooding the workforce with coders who can't find jobs.
Because most people never see one like that and don't realize it's fairly common. After the Russian incident, any bolide means THE SKY IS FALLING!! and they click on it. The buzz will die eventually.
2. Never met a normal home-schooled kid, but I'm sure there must be one out there. In my experience home-school parents are generally terrified of their kids hearing a perspective aside from what ever crazy {$religious | political} views the family has.
And how many have you met? My brother's kids were home schooled. It had nothing to do with religion and everything to do with disappointment with the public school system. These kids are totally normal. They're ahead of their peers in math. They are better read. They play musical instruments. They do Tawkwondo. One completed NaNoWriMo two years ago at the age of 14. I read it, not publishable, but still fairly impressive for a 14 year old.
3. I'd wager that public school is less indoctrinating then 99.5% of homeschooling.
That's because most people do it for extreme religious reasons. Not everyone though. You can't claim homeschooling somehow screws up kids when it's in fact the parents.
The problem is our educational system regards the ability to read and comprehend hundreds of pages of material you could care less about as the highest virtue.
Not the education system. Society. This is what basic education is like. This is why we're not living in caves. If you're daughter can't handle, she becomes a house wife for some guy who has no respect for her. That's why we give them stimulants. To get that piece of paper that says they're not dumb.
This is just a politician building a boogie man, just one more link in the faux argument that the government continues to make regarding privacy in tech, or their desire for lack thereof.
I have no idea what party the DA is (nor does it matter), but I can tell you the DA is clearly a shill for the "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care about privacy" crowd
There's absolutely no reason to down vote this post unless you support this kind of government fear mongering.
The answer is obvious. Let's throw more people at the probem. We just have to make up for each persons 10% cut in productivity by putting 10% more workers out there, and paying each one 10% less. Problem solved...or something.
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Ok smartypance! What's north of the north pole?
Another easy one. The core of the earth.
Keep em coming
Has it? As I understand it, the mechanism of the acceleration of the universes expansion isn't explained. If that acceleration disappears, then surely we'll have a big crunch. No?
The idea of "location" with regard to the singularity is a question with no real sensical answer, unfortunately. It's a bit like asking "where is the center of the Earth's surface?"
That's easy. 0 degrees latitude, 0 degrees longitude. Looks to be somewhere around the Gulf of Guinea.
Haven't you been paying attention? No-one's buying PCs any more!
FTFY
I like the UI too. It's pretty neat for what it's for...tablets and phones. However, I use a mouse and full size keyboard and two monitors at work. I use all the hotkeys, use alt-tabbing, use the function keys, and flip between perhaps 10 - 20 windows in a typical day. I don't need a tablet UI for this, I need a desktop UI. In short, Windows 8 decreases my productivity.
Right. They just taught the automated system tic-tac-toe and it decided to give up on the launch. Computers are so stupid.
There are actualy several fundimental reasons to return to the moon, not the least of which being the establishment of a launch platform there that could ease exploration of deeper space.
I think this is ultimately futile in the near term. The only thing we should be doing on the moon right now is figuring out how to get robots to semi-autonomously manufacture habitats and simple materials from local resources. We simply can't afford to bring all that stuff with us. We should be trying to figure out how to live off the land out there. Sending a bunch of robots to build our habitats in advance is the only practical way we put people in space until some cheaper way to get a lot of mass into orbit is devised. Chemical rockets just aren't efficient enough to do the job.
And the market will show that the vast majority of gamers could not care less whether an Internet connection is required or not, so long as the game is fun. And since game development is all shifting towards multi-player anyway, with only token efforts being made for the lonely solo console players,
Always on DRM != multi-player
I'll never forget when I was in the SW:G beta. My wife asked me one day how I felt the game was coming along. I replied that it still had 6, maybe 8 months to go, and how it would be wonderful if the devs were given as much as 11 months. The very next morning I had an email from SOE/LucasArts letting me know that it was going retail in two weeks. It was a true "WTF?!" moment, and we all know how things turned out for SW:G.
Yeah. They had a nice steady user base and then decided to screw everyone over with the NGE. It wasn't the early release that killed it, it was the NGE.
It seems to me that the people who actually need to be targeted are the middle aged and older people who are in control of the votes and money needed to revitalise the space programs.
It's also nearly impossible to change the opinions of middle aged and older people.
I don't give a shit about your right to go out to a shooting range with your gun fetish and hit fake targets.
It's not a right to have access to some recreational activity. It's about the right to have access to the tools to protect yourself, your family, and if need be, your society.
The point is that nearly all jobs of the future will require programming ability.... In the future, those kinds of specialized software will be written by people with domain training/expertise
This is such crap. You're just talking about flooding the workforce with coders who can't find jobs.
Because most people never see one like that and don't realize it's fairly common. After the Russian incident, any bolide means THE SKY IS FALLING!! and they click on it. The buzz will die eventually.
No?
every mistake led to a dramatic downward step in their cash flow.
Perhaps. But do you really need cash flow when you have tens of millions sitting in an offshore account?
If NK actually did this, it too would glow enough to be seen from space.
It's EA, they don't care about either of these things.
I find it extremely unlikely that 800 1 star Amazon reviews is going unnoticed by EA. The are almost certainly pissed and knocking heads right now.
I always wondered why Polish jokes exist too. Looks like Wikipedia has a pretty good write up on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_joke
Yeah, Empire was pretty bad. His true colors really shined through in that one. I lost interest in OSC after that.
2. Never met a normal home-schooled kid, but I'm sure there must be one out there. In my experience home-school parents are generally terrified of their kids hearing a perspective aside from what ever crazy {$religious | political} views the family has.
And how many have you met? My brother's kids were home schooled. It had nothing to do with religion and everything to do with disappointment with the public school system. These kids are totally normal. They're ahead of their peers in math. They are better read. They play musical instruments. They do Tawkwondo. One completed NaNoWriMo two years ago at the age of 14. I read it, not publishable, but still fairly impressive for a 14 year old.
3. I'd wager that public school is less indoctrinating then 99.5% of homeschooling.
That's because most people do it for extreme religious reasons. Not everyone though. You can't claim homeschooling somehow screws up kids when it's in fact the parents.
The problem is our educational system regards the ability to read and comprehend hundreds of pages of material you could care less about as the highest virtue.
Not the education system. Society. This is what basic education is like. This is why we're not living in caves. If you're daughter can't handle, she becomes a house wife for some guy who has no respect for her. That's why we give them stimulants. To get that piece of paper that says they're not dumb.
This is just a politician building a boogie man, just one more link in the faux argument that the government continues to make regarding privacy in tech, or their desire for lack thereof. I have no idea what party the DA is (nor does it matter), but I can tell you the DA is clearly a shill for the "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care about privacy" crowd
There's absolutely no reason to down vote this post unless you support this kind of government fear mongering.
You seem to be confusing the Americans with companies that want to violate environmental laws.
The answer is obvious. Let's throw more people at the probem. We just have to make up for each persons 10% cut in productivity by putting 10% more workers out there, and paying each one 10% less. Problem solved...or something.
I'm just saying how I would react, not how everyone else would react.