I've said it once, I'll say it again...vibrato is just cheating when you can't sing the actual pitch. Seriously, just pick a note and sing it. What's so wrong about that?
Gee, complaining about glitches in a beta. That's brilliant. Hmmm the beta has some glitches! It must suck! Let's write it off permanently as crap! Ugh, as long as they don't pull a Vista or Leopard and release it with tons of unresolved problems and actually call it done, you won't hear me complaining. But if the entire basic design of it sucks, that's another story. I personally haven't seen it.
So they can suggest youtube videos based on what we watched before. That and I bet they're gonna figure in to the suggested videos what we've searched for in the past through the regular google search engine, which btw is A HORRIBLE IDEA. Plus, duck and cover if the executives don't get pretty statistics reports with colorful graphs that show what people watched from different locations determined by IP. I guess you could somewhat anonymize the stats needed to generate that but that's just extra work for the programming crew.
With my current TWC Road Runner connection, if I ran at max upload speed nonstop for every single second in an entire month, according to my calculations I'd be at almost 1/4 of that limit. That's nuts to even put that kind of limit on it. I don't know what kind of connection they have there but to hit that limit with just 6 hours a day at max speed for 30 days, it'd need to be over 41 megabits up. If you skip a few days or only go to like 3 hours, and you're not talking about multi-target uploads like p2p, the target computer's hard drive can't even write that fast. Gee, why didn't they just say a bajillion gigabyte cap?
They're making it sound like dark energy is visible light. If it's "dark" that means it's undetectable by normal means like giant lenses for instance. How could you just see dark energy? Isn't it more like something you'd detect with sensors, not a giant lense? But no, straight out of the article, they're gonna use it to for "detecting the invisible matter" because it has "advanced optics." Btw they said MATTER, not energy so apparently that's what they're actually looking for. Well that would officially make it dim matter, wouldn't it? Like I always thought, dark matter is just matter without a whole lot of light shining on it cuz it's in between galaxies and stuff.
And what does having dialup say about their intelligence and technical knowledge in the first place? So yeah, dumb people have dialup so naturally dumb people wouldn't want broadband cuz dialup works just fine *rolls eyes* You'd think just the fact that it frees up their phone line would be enough but noooo. Apparently nobody ever calls them either.
Yeah well if you stand out in the sun for 10 seconds in black clothes, you get hot. It doesn't get much easier than that. Why drill into the earth when we're being bombarded by unbelievable amount of solar energy right here on the surface. If I was president, almost all funding would go to developing solar hydraulic towers and more effective solar panels. Plus, compressed air runs out. The sun won't for quite a while.
I have a window with a pretty bad shade and too thin of curtains in my room. After waking up when the sun rises instead of 10:30-ish like normal too many days in a row, I got some black rodeo fabric that lets absolutely no light through and VHB taped it to the wooden frame around my window. Now it's totally black but I leave it on all day and whenever I need to open my window, that fabric feels about 100 degrees and the air trapped behind it is about the same. And that's with my shade closed! If I left it open, black fabric alone could absorb a ton of heat energy. So I think solar curtains would work great.
I bet people were freaking over how they couldn't stream text in realtime like an IM program cuz there wasn't the bandwidth. It's just like the youtube and p2p will melt the internet crap today. Same bullshit different day!
Don't get too jumpy. Obviously a slow steam of volunteers means there's a massive self presentation bias. I don't think offering a card and cookie boquet for any participants (or whatever pathetic compensation/reward they offer) is enough to draw in a truly random sample. If a data center is horribly ineffecient, would they ever volunteer to be inspected? UM NO! But if one was relatively efficient compared to others, they'd be more likely to volunteer. So overally it's going to look like data centers use less power than they actually do on average.
says you, I wear regular old dollar store sunglasses and enjoy my perfect vision lol. You know they make non-prescription, iris altering contacts for people that wanna fake their eye color. And I bet there will be a service, probably a strange foreign country based website, that will manufacture them given a high res graphics file of any iris you want. Kinda a dumb, more fakeable than fingerprints biometric option.
I think someone's been watching too many movies. Aren't modern day iris scanners bad for your eyes. Sending crazy bright light directly into a person's eye will obviously damage it if it's done enough times. So all that logging in every day at the government's secret lab stuff is pure science fiction. I think personally doing an iris scan once can destroy enough rods or whatever to make people complain. They shouldn't be using this system and expecting people to be scanned whenever they want them to be.
Wait, let's back this train up a hair. So humans can't even look at another human and tell if they're over or under 18 necessarily. Like it's hard to tell a 19 year old from a 17 year old. And they expect a computer to do better?! Not gonna happen even if all asians look alike so the AI coding is 100x simpler lol. Plus, they obviously didn't consider faking it that way. Totally idiotic if you ask me.
you mean like how meteorites are apparently square? Seriously, wtf was that. At least make it round. I've never seen a square anything in space in my life. But apparently all life carrying meteorites are square.
My kitchen has 6, 100 watt bulbs. Our living room has like 3 80s on the fan and that's it. My room has 1, 100. Our basement is on dimmers but I think they're about 12 bulbs of an unknown wattage that's at least 60. The computer monitors in my room are what like 30 watts each (duals) and my computer probably pulls at least 100 watts while processing. I have no idea what the AC system is for a 1400 sq ft house like ours but probably like 1000 watts. Just turning the lights on in two rooms hits the limit and most people have lights on in two rooms a lot of the time. So one person home alone at 8:00 at night with a 32" LCD TV and lights on constant and AC running intermittently, they've more than doubled the rate and that's one person in one room. And if half the people match this meager rate in the 200,000 homes at once, I don't care what their monthly average is, they just overloaded the power grid.
First of all, a couple links are broken and there's major spelling errors. But to get to my real point, it says "one 200MW power station will provide enough electricity to around 200,000 typical Australian households." Oh boy, households being used as a unit of electricity again! Okay, let's do the math. That's 1000 watts per house. Wow, so everyone can have one light bulb on while their small microwave is running and that's it. Most people have 1000 watts in lights on at any given time let alone cooking and heating and cooling. What a load of bullshit. I hate sensationalist stats that are horribly, HORRIBLY incorrect.
Hey, I've got an idea. First, why don't they upgrade the image quality so you can actually see what's going on and get good pictures of criminals? It all looks like blurry gas station cameras from 10 years ago right now. Why spend millions making them follow people intelligently if you still can't make out details or get a good image of the person?!
but those douchebags usually own Hummers and 12 cyllinder Jaguars and stuff so paying more for gas even pisses them off cuz they're not rich because they throw away money carelessly despite the price of something. Plus, flying in rare foods and other products from other countries is waaaaay more expensive now so they should all get over it pretty quickly
They did put one quote from him which states: "I wish they were. They're all going to Facebook" but they didn't say how he said it. So imagine him jumping up, kicking his chair over, and flipping off the reporters then agrily growling "I wish they were. They're all going to Facebook." and then screaming "raaaaawwwwwrrrrr" and throwing his chair over his desk at them. While they didn't say he did that, they didn't say he didn't do that.
and also, note how it says that Microsoft's 1.6% stake in facebook is estimated to be worth $15 billion and that stat is a year old. That means today Faceboook is worth a little over a trillion dollars. That's absolutely bullshit but if it was true, we should sell it to china to make a dent in the national debt.
You know, why don't they just disconnect China from the internet completely. I think that would solve everyone's problems, apparently the Chinese government's included since they're paranoid about giving anyone real internet access. All they have to do is drag a boat anchor across their coast lol.
ah huh, and I'm sure they won't use the tags to track anyone ever. Nope, I mean all they have is their first and last name and probably address too from the credit card data and a unique identifier to identify them. I mean they're not going to put sensors everywhere in the city to track them everywhere but I bet they could sell the data of routes people take and sell the stats to businesses. That or follow "suspicious" people who haven't even committed a crime.
well it'd be cheaper to go there for it. Of course then we'd crash the oil spaceship into comets aka "the icebergs of the sky" and cause a catastrophe for all the moon weasels.
btw, I feel the need to mention that H2O ice doesn't sublimate, CO2 ice does.
wait, you forgot one...bullshit use in campaigs smashes records! Seriously, the internet has made is so much easier to turn Hillary into a raging lesbian, coin operated political automoton, Barack into a terrorist muslim, and McCain into crazy grandpa Phil who never knows what he's doing. Well the internet and the news but both are truly powered by sudden outbreaks of common dumb.
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I've said it once, I'll say it again...vibrato is just cheating when you can't sing the actual pitch. Seriously, just pick a note and sing it. What's so wrong about that?
Gee, complaining about glitches in a beta. That's brilliant. Hmmm the beta has some glitches! It must suck! Let's write it off permanently as crap! Ugh, as long as they don't pull a Vista or Leopard and release it with tons of unresolved problems and actually call it done, you won't hear me complaining. But if the entire basic design of it sucks, that's another story. I personally haven't seen it.
So they can suggest youtube videos based on what we watched before. That and I bet they're gonna figure in to the suggested videos what we've searched for in the past through the regular google search engine, which btw is A HORRIBLE IDEA. Plus, duck and cover if the executives don't get pretty statistics reports with colorful graphs that show what people watched from different locations determined by IP. I guess you could somewhat anonymize the stats needed to generate that but that's just extra work for the programming crew.
With my current TWC Road Runner connection, if I ran at max upload speed nonstop for every single second in an entire month, according to my calculations I'd be at almost 1/4 of that limit. That's nuts to even put that kind of limit on it. I don't know what kind of connection they have there but to hit that limit with just 6 hours a day at max speed for 30 days, it'd need to be over 41 megabits up. If you skip a few days or only go to like 3 hours, and you're not talking about multi-target uploads like p2p, the target computer's hard drive can't even write that fast. Gee, why didn't they just say a bajillion gigabyte cap?
They're making it sound like dark energy is visible light. If it's "dark" that means it's undetectable by normal means like giant lenses for instance. How could you just see dark energy? Isn't it more like something you'd detect with sensors, not a giant lense? But no, straight out of the article, they're gonna use it to for "detecting the invisible matter" because it has "advanced optics." Btw they said MATTER, not energy so apparently that's what they're actually looking for. Well that would officially make it dim matter, wouldn't it? Like I always thought, dark matter is just matter without a whole lot of light shining on it cuz it's in between galaxies and stuff.
And what does having dialup say about their intelligence and technical knowledge in the first place? So yeah, dumb people have dialup so naturally dumb people wouldn't want broadband cuz dialup works just fine *rolls eyes* You'd think just the fact that it frees up their phone line would be enough but noooo. Apparently nobody ever calls them either.
mine won't work with it cuz it doesn't have the wireless capabilities needed ;)
Yeah well if you stand out in the sun for 10 seconds in black clothes, you get hot. It doesn't get much easier than that. Why drill into the earth when we're being bombarded by unbelievable amount of solar energy right here on the surface. If I was president, almost all funding would go to developing solar hydraulic towers and more effective solar panels. Plus, compressed air runs out. The sun won't for quite a while.
I have a window with a pretty bad shade and too thin of curtains in my room. After waking up when the sun rises instead of 10:30-ish like normal too many days in a row, I got some black rodeo fabric that lets absolutely no light through and VHB taped it to the wooden frame around my window. Now it's totally black but I leave it on all day and whenever I need to open my window, that fabric feels about 100 degrees and the air trapped behind it is about the same. And that's with my shade closed! If I left it open, black fabric alone could absorb a ton of heat energy. So I think solar curtains would work great.
I bet people were freaking over how they couldn't stream text in realtime like an IM program cuz there wasn't the bandwidth. It's just like the youtube and p2p will melt the internet crap today. Same bullshit different day!
Don't get too jumpy. Obviously a slow steam of volunteers means there's a massive self presentation bias. I don't think offering a card and cookie boquet for any participants (or whatever pathetic compensation/reward they offer) is enough to draw in a truly random sample. If a data center is horribly ineffecient, would they ever volunteer to be inspected? UM NO! But if one was relatively efficient compared to others, they'd be more likely to volunteer. So overally it's going to look like data centers use less power than they actually do on average.
says you, I wear regular old dollar store sunglasses and enjoy my perfect vision lol. You know they make non-prescription, iris altering contacts for people that wanna fake their eye color. And I bet there will be a service, probably a strange foreign country based website, that will manufacture them given a high res graphics file of any iris you want. Kinda a dumb, more fakeable than fingerprints biometric option.
I think someone's been watching too many movies. Aren't modern day iris scanners bad for your eyes. Sending crazy bright light directly into a person's eye will obviously damage it if it's done enough times. So all that logging in every day at the government's secret lab stuff is pure science fiction. I think personally doing an iris scan once can destroy enough rods or whatever to make people complain. They shouldn't be using this system and expecting people to be scanned whenever they want them to be.
Wait, let's back this train up a hair. So humans can't even look at another human and tell if they're over or under 18 necessarily. Like it's hard to tell a 19 year old from a 17 year old. And they expect a computer to do better?! Not gonna happen even if all asians look alike so the AI coding is 100x simpler lol. Plus, they obviously didn't consider faking it that way. Totally idiotic if you ask me.
you mean like how meteorites are apparently square? Seriously, wtf was that. At least make it round. I've never seen a square anything in space in my life. But apparently all life carrying meteorites are square.
because they're packed full of mercury (and look like crap and depending on what you believe, damage your eyes and skin)
My kitchen has 6, 100 watt bulbs. Our living room has like 3 80s on the fan and that's it. My room has 1, 100. Our basement is on dimmers but I think they're about 12 bulbs of an unknown wattage that's at least 60. The computer monitors in my room are what like 30 watts each (duals) and my computer probably pulls at least 100 watts while processing. I have no idea what the AC system is for a 1400 sq ft house like ours but probably like 1000 watts. Just turning the lights on in two rooms hits the limit and most people have lights on in two rooms a lot of the time. So one person home alone at 8:00 at night with a 32" LCD TV and lights on constant and AC running intermittently, they've more than doubled the rate and that's one person in one room. And if half the people match this meager rate in the 200,000 homes at once, I don't care what their monthly average is, they just overloaded the power grid.
First of all, a couple links are broken and there's major spelling errors. But to get to my real point, it says "one 200MW power station will provide enough electricity to around 200,000 typical Australian households." Oh boy, households being used as a unit of electricity again! Okay, let's do the math. That's 1000 watts per house. Wow, so everyone can have one light bulb on while their small microwave is running and that's it. Most people have 1000 watts in lights on at any given time let alone cooking and heating and cooling. What a load of bullshit. I hate sensationalist stats that are horribly, HORRIBLY incorrect.
Hey, I've got an idea. First, why don't they upgrade the image quality so you can actually see what's going on and get good pictures of criminals? It all looks like blurry gas station cameras from 10 years ago right now. Why spend millions making them follow people intelligently if you still can't make out details or get a good image of the person?!
but those douchebags usually own Hummers and 12 cyllinder Jaguars and stuff so paying more for gas even pisses them off cuz they're not rich because they throw away money carelessly despite the price of something. Plus, flying in rare foods and other products from other countries is waaaaay more expensive now so they should all get over it pretty quickly
They did put one quote from him which states: "I wish they were. They're all going to Facebook" but they didn't say how he said it. So imagine him jumping up, kicking his chair over, and flipping off the reporters then agrily growling "I wish they were. They're all going to Facebook." and then screaming "raaaaawwwwwrrrrr" and throwing his chair over his desk at them. While they didn't say he did that, they didn't say he didn't do that.
and also, note how it says that Microsoft's 1.6% stake in facebook is estimated to be worth $15 billion and that stat is a year old. That means today Faceboook is worth a little over a trillion dollars. That's absolutely bullshit but if it was true, we should sell it to china to make a dent in the national debt.
You know, why don't they just disconnect China from the internet completely. I think that would solve everyone's problems, apparently the Chinese government's included since they're paranoid about giving anyone real internet access. All they have to do is drag a boat anchor across their coast lol.
ah huh, and I'm sure they won't use the tags to track anyone ever. Nope, I mean all they have is their first and last name and probably address too from the credit card data and a unique identifier to identify them. I mean they're not going to put sensors everywhere in the city to track them everywhere but I bet they could sell the data of routes people take and sell the stats to businesses. That or follow "suspicious" people who haven't even committed a crime.
well it'd be cheaper to go there for it. Of course then we'd crash the oil spaceship into comets aka "the icebergs of the sky" and cause a catastrophe for all the moon weasels.
btw, I feel the need to mention that H2O ice doesn't sublimate, CO2 ice does.
wait, you forgot one...bullshit use in campaigs smashes records! Seriously, the internet has made is so much easier to turn Hillary into a raging lesbian, coin operated political automoton, Barack into a terrorist muslim, and McCain into crazy grandpa Phil who never knows what he's doing. Well the internet and the news but both are truly powered by sudden outbreaks of common dumb.